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TIL that Brian Blessed once accidentally punched Peter Capaldi in the face and sent him to hospital as a result.

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loxJK TIL of The Hackney Mole Man who was evicted from his house in 2006 after he had secretly hollowed out a web of tunnels and caverns, some 8m (26ft) deep, underneath his London home, ultimately putting the neighbourhood at risk. He denied this, saying: „I tried to dig a wine cellar.“
b5rj TIL. Russia implemented prohibition for 11 years, from 1914 to 1925. The ban was enacted even though roughly 1/3 of the government’s entire revenue came through the sale of vodka. It was called “…the single greatest act of national heroism. ”
pYRlZ TIL in 1959, Ottawa Int'l Airport was planning to open a new terminal. But during rehearsals for the Opening Ceremony, a US fighter jet flew so fast that it caused a sonic boom, which shattered many windows, tiles, and structural columns. The opening had to be delayed by a year to fix the damage.
6AE8 TIL that tomatoes, potatoes, paprika, peppers, and eggplant are part of a family called ‘nightshade’ foods, which contain a toxin called 'solanine’ - ingested in large quantities can cause hallucinations, paralysis and death.
vBgL TIL In 2003 a pizza delivery man seeming picked at random walked into a bank and calmly committed a robbery. when he tried to leave the police stopped him outside, the man said his neck bomb was on a timer and had to get somewhere to get that key that would unlock it. He didn’t make it