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TIL in 2013 a heatwave of 86°F killed 760 people in Britain.
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TIL there were 2 biopics of Yves Saint Laurent with nominations at the 2015 Cesar awards (French equivalent of the Oscars), The films were titled 'Yves Saint Laurent' and 'Saint Laurent' and both actors who played the titular role were nominated for best actor.
QwNX
TIL An Irish priest was offered free travel on the Titanic to New York but his superior told him to “GET OFF THAT SHIP”. The rest of his life he would tell people “it was the only time holy obedience ever saved a man’s life”.
LDpr
TIL that until the 1770s, Western civilizations considered kangaroos as a mythical beast, with “the head of a deer, standing upright like a man, and hopping like a frog … sometimes with a second head on its stomach.”
NMyb
TIL Hitler accidentally bombed his nephew’s house in Liverpool, so the nephew moved to the United States to fight with the Allies.
N45N
TIL that a floating British base was abandoned until a rogue DJ moved there. He declared the floating fortress the Principality of Sealand. He raised a flag, named himself Prince and his wife Princess. Sealand withstood court challenges, and remains an independent nation to this day.