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TIL that actor Vic Morrow was decapitated by a helicopter on the set of the Twilight Zone movie.

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VBNb4 TIL that there was another Potato related famine that took place in Scotland around the same time as the Great Famine in Ireland.
16RMP TIL about the ghost army of WWII. Special troops used to deceive German command about the size, location, and plans using impersonation, prop equipment, and radio misinformation.
NX56e TIL: The consensus is that octopuses are most likely sentient.
ylbX TIL That Proctor and Gamble hires less than 1% of the people that apply.
e0pO5 Sea creatures in Mariana Trench (the deepest place on Earth) have been found with man-made fibres in their stomachs for the first time, showing that no part of the world’s seas are now untouched by human rubbish.