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TIL in 1971 Roger Daltrey of The Who convinced his bank to lend him £39,500 for a house by having them believe that, as a major star, he was a millionaire. However, due to reckless tour spending The Who actually were £600k in debt at the time.

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YpjVd TIL that Serena Williams, often considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all-time, voiced Ming the Prison Guard on "Avatar: The Last Airbender", after she said it was her "favorite show"
eaBE TIL that Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support
OoKPR TIL in 2008, Five European divers got swept away by strong currents in Indonesia and survived 12 hours adrift at sea. They ended up stranded on Rinca Island and fended off a Komodo dragon. After spending 2 days on the island they were eventually rescued by a search boat.
b6kj TIL that a man who gave away his fortune to charity also donated a kidney to a stranger, noting that the chances of dying as a result of the procedure were about 1 in 4,000 and “to withhold a kidney from someone who would otherwise die means valuing one’s own life at 4,000 times that of a stranger”
voJ8 TIL African continent is being split into two due to the birth of a new ocean. In 2005, an 8 meter wide and 60km long stretch of the earth opened up over a period of just ten days.