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TIL Gerard Butler was a week short of becoming a lawyer and instead moved to London to become an actor… presumably after watching Star Wars

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A4aw TIL a mexican priest became a Lucha Libre wrestler named Fray Tormenta in order to raise money to support the orphanage he founded. When he retired, one of the children from the orphanage took up his mantle so that the legend of Fray Tormenta can live on.
N7M0N TIL that the construction of Brandenburg, the new airport in Berlin, is so behind schedule they will have to scrap 750 display screens which are now at the end of their life having being switched on for six years. Not a single flight has yet left the airport, and it may not open until beyond 2020.
gMJ69 TIL that 'Don't Mess With Texas' was originally an anti-littering campaign by the Texas Department of Transportation. Since the phrase is a federally registered trademark, the department has tried at times to enforce its trademark rights with little success.
wowyo TIL early 20th century pregnancy tests involved a lengthy and costly process where the urine sample would be injected into five mice per woman. The mice would then be dissected to find out if they were ovulating. These results would be obtained in a week.
xVWYB TIL Playboy founder and U.S. Army veteran Hugh Hefner provided his plane, the “Big Bunny,” to transport Vietnamese children to New York during the evacuation of Saigon. Playboy bunnies were the ones who cared for the babies until they reached their destination