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TIL that the famous scarf of the 4th Doctor from Doctor Who was made 16 feet long as a result of a mistake.

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9QWp TIL George Zimmer, the owner and founder of The Men’s Wearhouse, does not background check his employees. “I don’t trust the U.S. justice system to get it right,” says Zimmer, who is himself a recovering alcoholic. “I’d rather make my own decisions, and I believe in giving people a second chance.”
l7al1 TIL that in 1978, a 30 people hostage situation in Melbourne was resolved when the perpetrators mother stormed the place, hit him over the head with her handbag and told him to "stop being so stupid".
mkJM TIL Thatcher supposedly threatened to nuke Argentina over the Falklands if the French president didn’t hand over the disabling codes for the French-made Argentinian missiles.
xVvQo TIL that Freddie Mercury of Queen held a party in New Orleans in 1978, which featured nude waiters and waitresses, a man biting heads off live chickens, naked models wrestling in a liver pit, and dwarves walking around with trays of cocaine strapped to their heads.
wZRJ TIL of a British soldier who fought in both world wars, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, survived two plane crashes, tunneled out of a POW camp, bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them, and said of WWI, “Frankly, I had enjoyed the War.”