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TIL ‘I’m sorry to have troubled you chaps’ were James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s last words to the EMTs tending to him during his heart attack.

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xVk8B TIL Coca Cola allegedly used Colombian death squads to terrorise workers and prevent the organisation of unions
ANRW7 TIL that Disney tried to change the film "Dead Poets Society" to be about dancing instead of poetry, and to rename it "Sultans of Swing".
Me5WA TIL the monument in front of the tomb of Wu Zetian, China's only female monarch, has no inscriptions. Among the many explanations given: she saw her great achievements as indescribable; she didn't want the scholars to smear her name; or as a Buddhist, she considered life and death to be meaningless
xMEo TIL that there are two species of flowering plants growing in Antarctica, even though 98% of the continent is covered by ice that averages 1.9 kilometres (1.2 miles) in thickness.
VMoGD TIL that in the year 1909, the British Intelligence Agency MI6 was formed but it was kept such a secret that it wasn't formally acknowledged until the year 1994.