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TIL Nazis Planned to Assassinate Winston Churchill with an Exploding Chocolate Bar but the plot was uncovered by british spies

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Olb6 TIL that when Chuck Norris was asked who would win a fight between him and Bruce Lee, he said, “Bruce [Lee] of course, nobody can beat him.”
D1XAJ TIL Billy Redden, who played Lonnie in the famous Dueling Banjos scene from Deliverance, was paid only $500 for his role and now works at a Walmart in Clayton, GA.
kJaW1 TIL about Ban Khun Samut Chin, a village in Thailand that has suffered 1.1- 2km shoreline retreat and has only 4 students left at the local school. It is unknown how long locals can keep living there.
x4E1 TIL there is an native american people who developed a tradition of long-distance running up to 200 miles (320 km) in one session.
KY9G6 TIL an episode of Peppa Pig was banned in Australia because it taught children that "spiders can't hurt you", because Australian spiders can actually hurt you