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TIL that Leonard Nimoy directed “Three Men And A Baby”

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Qkk6 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.
xOlg TIL that South Carolina was not flying the confederate flag for the first half of the 20th century, and only reintroduced it in the 1960s in response to being forced to integrate their schools.
X0rnj TIL, Smash Mouth conceived the idea for ‘All Star’ after they received a ton of fan mail about their fans being bullied for liking the band
Lkjod TIL Angelina Jordan, a 14 y.o. singer who won Norway's Got Talent in 2014, always performs barefoot because when aged 6 she met a girl living on the streets without shoes- Angelina gave this girl her shoes and vowed never to appear on stage again wearing shoes until all the world’s children had them
epAlg TIL that scientists in 1997 witnessed a massive battle b/w 9 sperm whales & up to 35 orcas off the coast of Cal. that "clearly establish for the first time that killer whales are predators of sperm whales." The "apparent helplessness of the sperm whales" was striking w/ maybe all 9 eventually dying.