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TIL about the last knight, and his stand against NAZIs.

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aeK9 TIL that in 1987, a prison inmate, Ronnie Lee Gardner, broke a glass partition and knocked out the lights in the prison visiting area to have sex with a woman who was visiting him. The other inmates cheered and barricaded the doors. Gardner later claimed breaking the glass was an accident.
E17Do TIL that one of Terry Jones' characters in Monty Python's Life of Brian - the crowd member who demands that Pilate 'Welease Woger' - is named in the script after the actor Bob Hoskins
4kyZR TIL Dick Van Dyke was rescued by porpoises after he fell asleep while surfing. He woke up out of sight of land and tried paddling back, suddenly the sea creatures emerged and saved his life by helping push him back to the shore
4Xkv5 Actually, many species of ducks have feet—and legs!—tinted a bluish green or gray. But for the ducks that do have orange feet, well, it's all about attracting the ladies. Chicks dig orange.
LQXed TIL that the inventor of chiropractic said the idea came to him during a seance, from the ghost of a doctor who had died 50 years earlier.