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TIL Vladimir Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent

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9wdk6 TIL machines can not mimic handmade crochet items due to the intricate patterns and weaves involved
ArGa TIL on November 20, 2004, at the annual Harvard–Yale football game Yale students, costumed as a Harvard “pep squad”, gave out placards to a section of Harvard fans which, when raised together, read “WE SUCK”.
LkpDP TIL Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe from the sitcom Friends) published an academic paper in neurology the same year that Friends debuted on TV.
4XwZJ TIL the actor playing Hedorah the Smog Monster in a 1971 Godzilla film came down with appendicitis. Doctors were forced to perform surgery while he was still wearing the monster suit due to the length of time it took to take off. During the operation he learned that painkillers had no effect on him.