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TIL since only five triple rainbows had been reported to science in the previous 250 years, many scientists had written them off as myths. The first photographic proof of a triple rainbow did not appear in a scholarly publication until 2011.

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9YRKG TIL UK's highest-paid entertainer in WW2, George Formby, went to Normandy after the landings, & gave 9 shows to frontline troops who’d held out for 56 days without relief, his audience in foxholes. He also crawled through trenches to tell jokes when the enemy was too close for a show.
yQYPa TIL that some spiders engage in oral sex
YxBB TIL that US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was forced to invent a new signature to be put on US bills. His old signature was just a bunch of loops
XJWP TIL there is a Wikepedia page entirely dedicated to compiling a list of successful Rickrolls
b9de9 TIL there was an original ending in the film "Army of Darkness", where Bruce Campbell's character wakes up in a future where civilization is destroyed after miscalculating the number of potions needed to properly return to his own time. Universal Pictures rejected it as too depressing and negative.