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TIL Marlon Brando’s final acting job was voicing Don Corleone in The Godfather video game released in 2006. His recordings were eventually cut because his oxygen tank made too much noise during the audio recordings

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6EJQW TIL in 1972 Romas Kalanta was 19 year old Lithuanian high school student known for his public self-immolation protesting against soviet regime in Lithuania. His death provoked biggest post war riots and inspired 13 more similar suicides against regime. His funeral was delayed to prevent publicity.
l7Pa5 TIL in 2016 a bloodhound wandered into a half marathon on their own and finished in 7th place.
X0k18 TIL Father Alec Reid, a Catholic priest who secretly worked to end decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland between 1960s-1998, unsuccessfully tried to stop two British soldiers (Protestant side) from being shot by the IRA, while carrying crucial secret letter outlining peace negotiations.
b9nGp TIL the earliest known use of "y'all" was from the English scholar William Lisle in 1631: "The captive men of strength I gave to you, the weaker sold; and this y’all know is true"
jNB4v TIL that hens store semen in storage tubules and can periodically release portions of it over the course of a month to produce numerous fertile eggs. If they happen to mate with a male they don't like, they can simply expel the entire sample and produce infertile eggs.