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TIL during the entire filming of Mary Poppins, NOBODY, not even Julie Andrews, let Dick Van Dyke know he had the “most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema.”

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N70lQ TIL that Manfred "The Red Baron" von Richthoven was so respected that after shooting him down in 1918, the allies gave him a full military funeral with wreaths, a 25-man firing party, a dozen reporters and a cinematographer present.
4B6o TIL of Johnathan Ayers, the minister murdered by a Georgia drug task force unit in 2009 while he was giving $23 to a woman who was about to be evicted.
6Wlw TIL that only .05% of French children have ADHD, because doctors treat it as a psycho-social disorder, instead of a biological one, and treat with psychotherapy, instead of relying on medication to control behavior