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TIL A statue of Queen Victoria was moved one inch on its plinth by a German bomb in 1940. It was otherwise unharmed.

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9YkjG TIL The production manager to 'Goonies' and 'Deliverance' retired from show business to pursue a dream to hand out bibles in exotic countries and help people in need. He sold his house to custom make a boat to hold a load of bibles. In 2011 he and his wife were shot and killed by Somali pirates.
ANDj7 TIL that Nearly half of Americans (49%) have parallelophobia, or the fear of parallel parking. Only about half (53%) feel “very confident” in their parallel parking skills.
9eAG TIL After John Cleese spoke negatively about the town of Palmerston North in New Zealand, the town renamed a compost heap “Mt. Cleese.”
0NGR TIL That Egyptians had two types of writing, not just hieroglyphics.
OGZR4 TIL Muhammad is the most popular name in the world, by 2014 it was estimated to have been given to 150 million men and boys.