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TIL The theme music for the British sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em spells out its title in morse code.

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b60Aa TIL about Toto Koopman, a Dutch-Indonesian model who worked as a spy for the Dutch Resistance in WWII, escaped imprisonment several times, pretended to be a nurse and forged papers to rescue women from the gas chamber and later became an archaeologist as well as found an influential art gallery.
PY7GO TIL in the movie The Princess Bride, when Count Rugen knocks Westly played by Cary Elwes on the head the tap came a little too hard and Elwes was knocked legitimately unconscious; he later awoke in the hospital. It's that take, with Elwes actually passing out, that appears in the film.
loDka TIL that in 2011, an elderly woman who was searching for copper accidentally sliced through an underground cable which left the whole country of Armenia without internet connection.
yQ9DX TIL-Blue eyes don't have any pigment. they get their color the same way the sky and oceans do, they scatter light so more blue light come back out.
JLk1 TIL that the flashes of color you see in your eye after you rub them are called phosphenes.