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TIL that ~47% of Italians are functionally illiterate

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rdpy TIL that while filming Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick tricked George C. Scott into acting more ridiculously than Scott wanted. He convinced Scott to do over the top practice takes, saying they’d never be used, to warm up. Kubrick used these takes and Scott swore never to work with Kubrick again.
wL8WE TIL Bobby Dunbar, a four year old American boy, disappeared in 1912. After an eight-month nationwide search, they belived they had found the boy. The parents claimed the boy as their son. He lived his life as 'Bobby Dunbar.' In 2004, DNA profiling revealed he was not related to the family.
mVLR TIL there is an extinct genus of ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, which stood up to 3 metres tall, weighed as much as 540 kg and have actually been contemporary with modern humans for tens of thousands of years. (Sorry if repost)
ZpjZo TIL about John David Norman, a prolific sex offender who ran multiple direct mail CSAM magazines such as the "Odyssey Foundation" and "Handy Andy"
Abg TIL that BBC mistakenly used the UNSC logo from the Halo Franchise in place of the actual UNSC (United Nations Security Council) logo in one of their broadcasts