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TIL that Clint Eastwood, who has been on horseback in many of his movies, had a mid-life allergy to horses.

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vP1mR TIL the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force is converting the helicopter carrier JS Izumo into a fixed-wing aircraft carrier, their first since WW2
YgOG TIL that the bodyguard Walter H. Thompson saved Sir Winston Churchill over 20 times including from shrapnel during the Blitz, plots by the IRA, Indian nationalists, Arab nationalists, Nazi agents, Greek Communists and the deranged.
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