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TIL Roald Dahl wrote a Bond film.

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l7Zx1 TIL about the battle of Cape Ecnomus fought during the first Punic war. Both sides had a combined number of nearly 290,000 troops and nearly 700 warships. It's was likely the largest naval battle in history and it was fough in 256 BC
wLa6M TIL The half-life of an isotope of Tellerium is 160 Trillion times greater than the Universe's Age (Aprox. 13.8 billion) . The very-long-lived radioisotope Tellerium-128 thus has the longest known half-life among all the Radionuclides of around 2,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years!
wo1kP TIL that Martin James Monti, an American airman, stole a plane and defected to the Nazis. He became an officer in the Wehrmacht and recorded Nazi propaganda films. After the war, he was the first US military officer to ever be convicted of treason.
69wRW TIL Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime; he died thinking he was a failure
rN4Vd TIL, Dungeons and dragons was demonized back in the 1980s particularly from religious groups due to the fantasical and violent nature of the game