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TIL Lionel Jeffries who played the grandpa in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was only one year older than Dick Van Dyke

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P1kWZ TIL of Louis Wyman - Winner of 1974 New Hampshire Senate Election by just 2 votes, and served only 3 days while marred in an epic dispute then lost a rematch the next year convincingly
WbP8 TIL that during the Russian famine of the 1920s, Government officials advised starving residents to dig up the dried bones of animals, grind them into flour and bake a “bread substitute [that has] a nutritive value of 25 per cent more than rye bread, in spite of its unpleasant smell and taste”.
4X5JJ TIL Kodak uncovered the first atomic bomb test when customers began complaining about black spots on their photos
m1PGv TIL Tom Brady is ineligible for the College Football Hall of Fame
oBn1E TIL that, before a vowel, we pronounce “the” as “thee”, and before a consonant, we pronounce it “thuh”.