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TIL there is a gang of Serbian thieves named The Pink Panthers who have pulled off Mission Impossible styled heists netting over EUR 300 Million in jewels. Their leader, Dragan Mikic, escaped prison by scaling a wall while the Pink Panthers shot at guards with machine guns

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9YAk7 TIL the shot of Luke running out of the Wampa cave in ‘Empire Strikes Back’ was achieved by having Mark Hamill running out of the hotel the crew was staying at into the Norwegian snow beyond. At the time, they were being hit with the worst winter storm the area had gotten in 50 years.
k5N7 TIL llamas always poop in the same place.
W77yB TIL in 1967, hundreds of Singaporean men panicked that their penises were disappearing into their abdomen. They were actually fine but had succumbed to a culture-bound delusion disorder known as koro, which means turtle (as in a turtle’s head retracting into its shell)
Raxl TIL Without notice or warning to Boeing executives, pilot Tex Johnson did a barrel roll with his Boeing 707 over Lake Washington in Seattle. Asked by his boss “What the hell were you doing?” Johnson responded “Selling airplanes.” He was not terminated.
L4N0 TIL British reporter Clare Hollingworth broke the news of Hitler invading Poland. British embassy didn’t believe her until she held a telephone out of the window of her room to capture the ongoing sounds of war. Hers was the 1st report the British Foreign Office received about the invasion of Poland