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TIL that when Ricky Gervais—creator of the original UK version of ‘The Office'—was asked how he felt about the US version of the TV show being better, he replied “Really fucking rich”.

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8e75P TIL that there was a secret facility in the Swedish archipelago training seals for the navy during the Second World War. The seals were taught to locate mines, submarines, and torpedoes that had missed their targets.
rojd TIL You would have to smoke ~1,500 lbs (680 Kg) in 15 minutes in order to overdose on marijuana.
1av5r TIL about Cliff Young, a 61 year-old farmer who won a 544 mile ultramarathon in 1983, which he ran wearing overalls and workboots, by not sleeping for 5 days. He let the other 5 finishers split the A$10,000 prize.
y1pv TIL In 1953, an Anglican priest founded the Samaritans, the world’s first crisis suicide hotline. He was inspired to do so years previously after serving the funeral of a 14 year old girl who committed suicide because she had begun to menstruate & feared that she had a sexually transmitted disease.
9EA6 TIL that Kim Jong Il wanted to solve the North Korean hunger problem by breeding giant rabbits. A German farmer supplied 11 rabbits to help him get started, but it was later discovered Kim Jong Il ate all of them at his birthday party