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TIL English comedian Benny Hill was born Alfred Hill, but adopted the nickname "Benny" as an homage to comedian Jack Benny

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VMNDD TIL Phil Collins sang the songs for "Disney's Tarzn" fully in german for the german synchronization.
M08m TIL the largest Embassy in the world is the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. It cost $750 million to build, employs 16,000 people and costs $6 billion a year to run.
8aD0L TIL The length of the Great Wall of China is more than half the circumference of the Earth
pYW0b TIL of Rick Ennis, who brutally murdered his parents in 1993 when he was 12 years old. Then at the age of 42, was again charged and convicted of killing a woman named Lori Slesinski.
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