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TIL Sean Connery once beat up four men single-handedly for giving some girls a hard time in a club, while Michael Caine held his coat

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4Xg8w TIL that for every child born or adopted in Wales since April 2014, the government have donated a fruit tree to Ugandan families.
XN5r TIL more than 12 billion light years away there is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean.
9Ymbm TIL about Operation Pluto, an operation to lay submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel in support of the Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII. The two pipelines, "Bambi" and "Dumbo", carried 180 million imperial gallons of petrol to the Allied Expeditionary Force in North West Europe.
7NB7 TIL that one of the only senators ever assassinated was Leo Ryan who was killed by Jim Jones’s cult members while they were in the process of committing mass suicide. He had come to investigate reports from concerned family members.
mGvx TIL a “Red Herring” logical fallacy is a point in an argument that misleads or distracts from the issue at hand. E.g. “If the world’s 15 largest cargo ships don’t burn the low grade fuel, someone will.” Doesn’t make the low grade fuel any more reasonable for the ships to burn it.