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TIL A tourist was denied entry into the United Kingdom because the custom agent didn't believe she wanted to visit Gateshead.

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Wkvk4 TIL of Episcopal civil rights martyr Jonathan Myrick Daniels. Daniels was murdered by a shotgun-wielding county deputy named Tom Coleman in Hayneville, Alabama, while in the act of shielding 17-year-old Ruby Sales. He saved the life of the young Black civil rights activist.
njGB TIL that there are methane ice worms in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico that live off of bacteria that eat the chemicals in the “ice”.
5VlmD TIL: A man, over the phone, convinced various restaurant and grocery managers to conduct strip searches of female staff, or in one case a customer, on behalf of "the police". For at least 12 years, starting in 1992, over 70 such occurrences were reported in 30 U.S. states.
eJ0D TIL Marlon Brando’s final acting job was voicing Don Corleone in The Godfather video game released in 2006. His recordings were eventually cut because his oxygen tank made too much noise during the audio recordings
GWwg TIL the man with the deepest voice in the world can hum far lower than you can hear.