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TIL that the 1986 Christmas special of Only Fools and Horses only completed editing on the day of broadcast (Xmas Day). There was a contingency plan to broadcast the final scene live.

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R7nZ9 TIL that in the Battle of Shiloh there was a strange phenomenon of soldiers having wounds that glow in the dark, because they the wounds were infected with a type of luminescent bacteria.
8aMMb TIL that the author of the original Bambi story wrote a fictional pornographic autobiography of a child prostitute in Vienna that was so period accurate that literature scholars debated for decades as to whether it was a true story for decades.
nWnX9 TIL about Snake Island, an island off the coast of São Paulo, Brazil which is closed to the public for safety reasons. It is the only known home of the endangered Golden Lancehead, whose cytotoxic venom is up to 5 times stronger than other pit vipers.
l8L5 TIL that the use of the phrase “Checkmate” is a mispronunciation of the original Persian, “ Shäh mät!”, which means the king is helpless
8B1b TIL As one of the largest real estate owner’s in the world, McDonald’s earns the majority of it’s profits from collecting rent, not from selling food.