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TIL (well, more like realised) that the proud owner of America's ass, Chris Evans played the protagonist's role in this entertaining thriller which I really enjoyed watching as a teenager. Ah, the good old days when mobile phones were a luxury and streaming videos were nigh impossible.

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R7PaQ TIL about Miklós Nyiszli, a Jewish-Hungarian inmate at Auschwitz. As a doctor by profession, he had to assist Dr. Mengele in cruel "experiments" and could in return live within a room inside Crematorium II. He survived and never again worked with a scalpel after the war.
Egel7 TIL in 1950 U.S. Senator Edwin C. Johnson’s favorite actress was Ingrid Bergman. However, when it became public knowledge that she had an affair, he introduced legislation banning all Hollywood movies starring amoral actors and actresses. Humiliated, Bergman left the country.
78bnO TIL that until the 1950s teaching of sign language in Australia was split along religious lines: Protestants learnt Auslan based on British Sign Language (BSL) while Catholics taught by Irish nuns learnt Australian Irish Sign Language (AISL). There are now only a few AISL speakers left.
wLkRP TIL a drunk Norwegian with an air gun hijacked a plane in 1985, with demands to speak to the prime minister. After consuming the plane's entire beer supply, he surrendered his weapon to authorities in exchange for more beer. There were no deaths or injuries.
5Y4B TIL Disney World has a special village for kids from Make A Wish called Give Kids The World Village which is staffed by 50,000 volunteers and overwhelms these children with affection and attention