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TIL Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, was afraid of parrots

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aMo TIL, the actual span of time that was supposed to have lapsed in the movie Groundhog Day was around 10,000 years.
p8g5N TIL the Gendarmerie of Haiti, the collaborationist police-force raised by the USA during its occupation of Haiti in the early 1900s, sent a rifle team of indigenous gendarmes to the 1924 Olympics. The team won the nation's first-ever Olympic medal, a bronze, in the team free rifle event.
jNxdj TIL of that time Peter Jackson tried to get Lee to scream as he was stabbed, only to be corrected. "Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody's stabbed in the back?" Lee said he asked Jackson. "Because I do."
JXVB TIL After Mick Jagger rang up bandmate Charlie Watts during the night and asked “Where’s my drummer?” Watts got out of bed, shaved, dressed in a suit, put on a tie and freshly shined shoes, then went to Jagger’s room and punched him in the face.
KXQR TIL that in 1967, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry was chased by the race organizer shouting “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers” while her boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield.