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Til that the actor who played Mr Bean and Blackadder, Rowas Atkinson fist studied engineering

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RDQ9 TIL that Lionel Logue, the speech therapist featured in The King’s Speech, used fees paid to him by wealthy clients to subsidize patients who could not afford to pay
nWG6b TIL that Soweto is an abbreviation for South Western Township.
lVAA TIL, In WW1, American soldiers who were skilled at trap shooting were armed with shotguns and stationed where they could fire at enemy hand grenades in midair.