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TIL that Christopher Guest who played Nigel Tufnel on This Is Spinal Tap was also a member of the British House of Lords.

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5VwAR TIL about the Crazy Horse Memorial, the World’s Largest Mountain Carving which has been actively under construction since 1948 in South Dakota
loQb7 TIL, that nearly 2 million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined in hands for call of a freedom from USSR
npyB TIL: There’s a company that takes donations to purchase student loans at pennies on the dollar just to wipe them out and has wiped $32m to date.
e0d8E TIL there was a cartoon character named Mr. Lancer on a show called Danny Phantom who would make exclamations in the form of literature titles
MKkW TIL the phrases “1st world, 2nd world, & 3rd world” do not represent wealth, but rather represent economic and political systems. First world being capitalism, second world being socialism, and third world being neutral/non-aligned.