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TIL Evel Knievel has the record for “most bones broken in a lifetime” with 433.

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dDQ68 TIL George Lazenby had never acted before playing James Bond, but was instead a model and car salesman who lied about having acting experience. He showed up with a suit, Rolex, and haircut like Sean Connery’s, and slipped past a distracted receptionist to get into the audition.
75yM TIL that when King William II of England was ‘accidentally’ shot through the lung with an arrow, his body was abandoned by the nobles, found by a peasant and returned to Winchester Cathedral by farmers.
rR9ve TIL Due to the rise in use of avocados, ERs are seeing more and more "avocado hand" injuries from the slash and stab wounds people sustained from mishandling things, in some cases causing permanent damage and requiring extensive surgery to repair
oRlvK TIL Thomas F Wilson, who played Biff in Back to The Future, shared an apartment with Andrew Dice Clay and Yakov Smirnoff before his big break.
neDZ7 TIL that after WWII, a small electronics shop was built in a bomb-damaged department store in Tokyo. The company, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, had only $530 and 8 employees. The company invented Japan's first tape recorder and, in 1958, changed its name to Sony.