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Today I learned Winston Churchill topped the list of greatest Britons ever lived ahead of Issac Newton, Shakespeare, Darwin and Princess Diana.

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b9bP7 TIL: Graca Machel, is the only woman in the world’s history to become the first lady of 2 different countries. She was married to the former president of Mozambique, Samora Machel, in 1975 who was killed in a plane crash in 1986. In 1998 she married Nelson Mandela former South African president.
gdpA TIL David Prowse, the guy in the Darth Vader suit in the original trilogy, is banned by George Lucas from all Star Wars events.
8aZgP TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes author) was called upon to help solve a real life crime. His help kept an innocent man from spending life in prison.
X0ZVr TIL about "Giant Mine" in NWT, Canada a mine that contains enough arsenic to kill every person on earth several times over. The arsenic has no half life so it will be just as deadly in 1,000,000 years. The government of Canada is currently trying to stop it from leaking into the environment.
Lkel0 TIL That a daring WWII raid by Norwegian commandos on a Nazi heavy-water plant prevented Germany from developing an atomic bomb before they were defeated