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TIL that Winston Churchill owned a platypus named ‘Bulldog’ whom he considered his 'personal mascot in conflict’. Bulldog died on the final day of the Battle of Britain.

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neB8W TIL that in 1975 A Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess wrote an early draft script for The Spy Who Loved Me which climaxed with James Bond using acupuncture to foil hippy terrorists
LkaR9 TIL that two-star orbiting planets like Star Wars' Tatooine were by wide consensus considered impossible, and the first such planet was only confirmed as recently as 2011
mg1o TIL the first U.S flag that was placed on the moon’s surface by Buzz Aldrin, was accidentally blown away by their craft during their departure and never found.