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TIL That Omarosa was dating Green Mile star Michael Clarke Duncan when he went into cardiac arrest, though she was able to perform CPR and resuscitate him he never fully recovered from the heart attack and died 2 months later in the hospital

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DQBLe TIL The Philippines is an archipelago which consists of 7,641 Islands. That figure does not include the thousands of sandbars and other landforms that emerge during low tide.
R7Np8 TIL Tibor Rubin survived the Holocaust, fought for the US Army during the Korean War, became a POW, and had to wait 55 years to receive his Medal of Honor, all because his sergeant was an anti-Semite.
9wLDX TIL The first deep water submarine rescue occurred in 1939. The submarine USS Sailfish sank off New Hampshire. 33 out of 59 of the crew had survived, trapped in a compartment that had not flooded. A newly developed device called the Mcann Rescue Chamber was used to rescue all the survivors.
4rnJ TIL John Lennon loved the B-52’s and their hit “Rock Lobster”
BrKr TIL Russell Crowe was unhappy with the screenplay of Gladiator. The famous line “In this life or the next, I will have my vengeance” he initially refused to say, telling writer ”Your lines are garbage but I’m the greatest actor in the world and I can make even garbage sound good”.