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TIL HG Wells and Charles Darwin lived only 7 miles apart
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TIL that American figure skater Peggy Fleming won gold at the 1968 Olympics in France, and it was the only gold won by the United States that year. It was also the first gold medal won by an American figure skater since the 1961 plane crash that killed all 18 members of the US figure skating team.
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TIL “Blazing Saddles” was the first movie to have a fart joke.
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TIL That while only 30% of 16-24 year olds in the UK report having had sex before turning 16, 72% of them thought half or more of 16 year olds had had sex before turning 16
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TIL Investigation on the Bangla 211 plane crash revealed the the pilot had been "severely distressed" and hadn't slept the night before the flight. He was crying in the cockpit while telling the story of an alleged affair with one of his trainees and was too anxious to pay attention to the job
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TIL during the filming of ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, production designer Ken Adam called up his old boss Stanley Kubrick for advice on how to light the inside of an enormous tanker ship, the villain’s secret lair. Kubrick snuck in on a Sunday morning for four hours to set the lighting up himself.