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TIL Daniel Radcliffe deliberately wore the same outfit for 6 months to piss off the paprazzi. Making it look like “the same old shot”

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x6bbw TIL in 2016, a suicide bomber carrying explosives in his laptop boarded Daallo Airlines, with the intention of destroying the aircraft. Twenty minutes after takeoff, the bomb detonated, resulting in a hole in the plane and the ejection of the bomber from the aircraft. he was the only casualty.
wLZQ6 TIL that Aretha Franklin's signature song "Respect" was actually written and performed by Otis Redding two years before she first sang it. "Redding's version is a plea from a desperate man, who will give his woman anything she wants... as long as he gets his due respect".
wLRm8 TIL Before 1952 golfers couldn't mark their ball on the green, even if it interfered with another player's putt
69L6w TIL that Shalom aleichem is the Hebrew version of As-salamu alaykum, with both rooted in a shared Semitic origin meaning 'peace.' While 'shalom' emphasizes harmony and completeness in Judaism, 'salam' reflects peace through submission to God's will in Islam.
QNWWL TIL that native English speakers, when using multiple adjectives to describe a noun, have a tendency to put the adjectives in a particular order according to type.