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TIL that Disney owns part of a Canadian Porn streaming service through ESPN

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yQB5e TIL In 1915, Kulbir Thapa was the first Nepalese Gurkha to receive the Victoria Cross. Thapa carried two wounded Gurkhas through No-Man’s-Land despite being wounded himself. When he went back a third time, German soldiers stopped firing and began clapping, allowing him to walk back to his own line.
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1QL8 TIL that Kurt Russell was actually the director of Tombstone, but kept his name off the credits by hiring a “ghost director”, someone who would be credited but was not allowed to make any decisions for himself and was only allowed to do what Russel told him.
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