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TIL Michael Clarke Duncan was Notorious BIG’s bodyguard.

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D1Jkg TIL the Titanic only had three functioning smokestacks, and the fourth one was fake. The builders of White Star Line added the extra funnel to make it look more powerful, like the already-famous Lusitania of their competitor, Cunard Line.
pXN8 TIL the coins that are tossed into many of the world’s most famous fountains are collected and donated to charities. The Trevi Fountain alone collects about $15,000 a week!
N7VQE TIL that after he was shot down and captured by the USSR in 1960, CIA pilot Gary Powers tried not to share intelligence with the KGB, but he was hampered by western press. A KGB major stated "there's no reason for you to withhold information. We'll find it out anyway. Your press will give it to us."
5VKZD TIL the piece of paper on top of a Hershey kiss is called a niggly wiggly
pN9Z TIL: Jimmy Savile was not just a paedophile. His victims were aged up to 75, and he was an overt necrophiliac.