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TIL While under contract to play James Bond, Pierce Brosnan wasn’t allowed to wear a tuxedo in any non-Bond film.

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5VMmQ TIL a cat’s tongue is made out of keratin, the same material that makes up human fingernails
rRmVy TIL in 1921 a group of workers in a fertilizer factory stuck dynamite in a 4.5k lbs block of hardened ammonium nitrate to loosen it up. The resulting explosion killed 500 people, destroyed 80% of the surrounding homes and ripped the roofs off of buildings 15 miles away.
epDnn TIL about Margaret Ives Abbott the first woman to win a medal in the modern Olympics, and also part of the only mother-daughter pair to compete in one Olympics. Margaret won at golf, her mother, Mary, came in seventh. Coinciding with the Paris Exposition, many were unaware they were in the Olympics.
R70p1 TIL that after his experience playing Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump, Gary Sinise established a charity to help disabled veterans.
D9Bv TIL Minnesota’s program for “sexual psychopaths” has never fully released a patient in its 21-year history, essentially constituting a life sentence.