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TIL the first native speaker to teach English in Japan was named "Ranald MacDonald"

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GYNYJ TIL That Daniel Craig has been injured 5 times while playing James Bond. He does all of his own stunts, and has had his two front teeth smashed out, lost the tip of a finger, sprained his arm and knee in separate incidents, and pulled his ankle.
9wBE6 TIL The BBC publishes in Pidgin (including its cookie policy)
DQdJe TIL the greatest peacetime maritime disaster is the sinking of MV Doña Paz in 1987 with 4386 dead, almost 3 times Titanic's casualties (1496). The greatest wartime disaster is Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 (9343 dead).
OoGJ6 TIL that the New Zealand badminton team at one time tried to combine their "All-Blacks" nickname, with a badminton shuttlecock, resulting in their team being nicknamed "The Black Cocks" for a while.
OobA4 TIL there was a supposed "Curse" of the subjects featured on the 50 State Quarters. One of the most famous examples was New Hampshire's "Old Man of the Mountain" which collapsed in 2003