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TIL that Sean Connery wore a wig in every James Bond film he was in.

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MaEW TIL all telephone service in the US and Canada was silenced for one minute on August 4th, 1922 to mark the funeral of Alexander Graham Bell
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pXKb TIL there are “nuclear divers”, or people who dive into nuclear power plant cooling systems to perform maintenance on them.
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