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TIL The ‘O’ in Irish surnames means means 'grandson of’.

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PbL TIL Heath Ledger wanted Christian Bale to beat him as hard as he could during the interrogation scene in “The Dark Knight”, so he could get a better feel for the scene.
69PBZ TIL The longest reverb in the world occurs in the bombproof Inchintown fuel tank built in the late 1930s/early 1940s in Invergordon, Ross-shire, Scotland. It lasts for approximately 112 seconds.
4Jj5 TIL: 10,000 light years away from Earth, there is a huge cloud of alcohol. It is 1000 times larger than the diameter of our solar system and contains enough alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints. To drink all of it, everyone on Earth would have to drink 300K pints each day—for 1 billion years.
XEXwE TIL a B26 Marauder named Flak Bait flew the most WWII combat missions of any plane, 207 over the course of 2 years, 130 of which were piloted by Lt. James J. Farrell. It was hit by enemy fire constantly but repaired and put back in the air. The name came from Farrell's dog, nicknamed Flea Bait.
rNKZd Today I learned that American couples only sleep with 1 duvet, large enough for the the two of them. And not separate ones. And they also have a weird thing called «top sheet»