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TIL that there’s an asteroid named after james bond

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5kBD TIL Fred Willard is the first (and so far, only) actor to appear as a live-action character in a Pixar movie. He plays Shelby Forthright, CEO of Buy and Large, in an archive video shown in the movie “WALL-E”.
pYG1G TIL Soviet ballet prodigy Rudolf Nureyev was from a Muslim Tartar family and started dance in Bashkir folk performances. On tour in Paris, he escaped the KGB to socialize at gay bars and with foreigners. In retaliation for defecting to the West, he was banned from seeing his mother for 25 years.
epEa6 TIL of a cant language utilized by Mormon missionaries in Japan known as Senkyoshigo. It synthesizes English function words with a primarily Japanese lexicon with English pronunciations of words. Some words include cook-chan, kanji jock, trunky, Eigo bandit, fud, bucho, golden kazuko and greenbean.
wolR1 TIL the reason many African countries have the colours green, yellow and red on their flags is because of an Ethiopian influence. The colours of the flag of Ethiopia, have come to represent the pan-Africanist ideology because it avoided being taken over by a colonial power.
Y78KB TIL in 2007 a 75-year-old Swedish pensioner had the fastest internet in the whole world.