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TIL on Jake Gyllenhaal’s very first night of five month’s of ride-alongs in preparation for his role in “End of Watch”, a man was shot dead in front of him.

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W75BA TIL the U.S. Marine Corps has an elite unit called the Body Bearers who perform ceremonial funerals and are "The Last To Let You Down". Requirements to be a Body Bearers include 10 reps of 225-lb bench press, 315-lb barbell squat, and height between 70-70 inches (72-76 preferred).
loKQ5 TIL in 2014, an 89 year old WW2 veteran, Bernard Shaw went missing from his nursing home. It turned out that he went to Normandy for the 70th anniversary of D-Day landings against the nursing home's orders. He left the home wearing a grey mack concealing the war medals on his jacket.
E171p TIL The song Alouette is about a French Canadian man who caught a lark and is telling it how he’s going to pluck its feathers
16aYO TIL Written by Beethoven in 1806, the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61's first performance was unsuccessful and for some decades the work languished in obscurity, until revived in 1844 by the then 12-year-old violinist Joseph Joachim. Since then it has become one of the best-known violin concertos
lop95 TIL That when Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960 there were only 16 Congolese college graduates in the country of 14 million people. They were called "Evolues" meaning the developed or civilized ones.