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TIL Ewan Mcgregor’s brother was an RAF pilot with the call sign “Obi Two”

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BL1y TIL the town of Austin, Indiana has a higher incidence of HIV than any country in Africa.
dlNd TIL Japanese green traffic lights are blue
BrbOr TIL that 1 in 3 middle aged men are affected by baldness on their lower legs. This pattern of hair loss is extremely common yet hardly studied. Leg crossing, trouser rubbing and friction have all been suggested as causes, but no study has demonstrated what the actual cause is.
R5d01 TIL David Frith, an English journalist, in 1983 commented that India should withdraw from the World Cup if they didn't improve. India won the WC and he literally ate his own words , with the help of some red wine.
PGOg TIL that prior to the US dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, the US military dropped 5 million leaflets warning citizens to evacuate major Japanese cities