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TIL when Sir Terry Pratchett was knighted, he forged his own sword from iron and meteorites just for the occasion

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NRMN TIL a man almost went to jail for child porn on his work issued laptop. He only got off after they found that the PC visited as many as 40 child porn sites a minute even while he was nowhere near it.
BrEvx TIL that although considered masters of camouflage, cephalopods like Squids, Octopi, and Cuttlefish are in fact colourblind and can modulate their experience of sight.
n9YG TIL hosting the 2006 World Cup caused Germany to experience baby boom. Nine months after the football competition, birthrate in Germany is up to 30% higher compared with the same period in the year before.
yQr1M TIL Tickets for the Muhammad Ali & Joe Frazier fight in 1971 were so hard to get that the only way Frank Sinatra could get in was to ring up the editor of Life Magazine and ask for a press pass as a photographer. His photo of the fight ended up on the front cover of the magazine.
88A8 TIL during WW2 Canadian soldier Leo Major singlehandedly captured 93 Nazis in the Netherlands. He later singlehandedly captured the town of Zwolle from the Germans. And he was blind in one eye.