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TIL that Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, in an attempt to obtain a visa to live in England, almost married Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols. The registrar's office was closed when the couple arrived and the marriage never went ahead.

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rvge TIL Denton Cooley answered in the affirmative when a lawyer during a trial asked him if he considered himself to be the best heart surgeon in the world. “Don’t you think that’s being rather immodest?” the lawyer replied. "Perhaps,” Cooley responded. “But remember I’m under oath.”
E1dK0 TIL that pharaoh Tutankhamun was buried with a dagger from space. The dagger was forged from meteorite, proving early metal - working in egypt.
4Eda TIL army ants are used as “natural sutures” - their jaws are so powerful, natives staple wounds by forcing ants to bite them and break off the body
xVgAw TIL of Catharism, a Medieval Christian movement in which the New Testament God was the 'good' god and the Old Testament God was the 'evil' god, aka Satan. They were heavily persecuted and were the recipients of a crusade
4V8X TIL that James Cameron received the go ahead for the film “Aliens” because of his pitch to the producers for the movie, in which he simply walked into the room, wrote “ALIEN” on a blackboard, wrote an “S” after the word, and then drew 2 vertical lines through the S to make it a dollar sign