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TIL that there’s a man who has been in 692 movies. His name is Frank Welker.

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wLEg8 TIL that Rolls-Royce cars have an anti theft mechanism that retracts the "Spirit of Ecstasy" ornament should it be jostled.
R7lk7 TIL that before George Orwell wrote 1984, the Empire of Japan had established a political police known as the Shisō Keisatsu - which translated means "Thought Police". There also existed a "Thought Section of the Criminal Affairs Bureau". Until 1945, they arrested people for "dangerous ideologies".
R5dLQ TIL Portugal offered to give Macau to China as early as 1978, but China refused, believing this would worsen their relations with Hong Kong. Portugal would only leave Macau in 1999, two years after Hong Kong became under Chinese rule.
ADLa4 TIL In addition to being the second largest country on earth, Canada’s coastline is the longest in the world. At 243,042 km, it is over four times longer than the number two country (Indonesia), and six times longer than the earth’s circumference.
mxx4R TIL Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, spent 10 years of his life programming an operating system to talk to God.