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TIL Christopher Lee released a power metal album when he was 87 years old.

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loERB TIL about David Bamberger, a former fried chicken tycoon turned rancher that bought and restored 5,500 acres of the most badly damaged, overgrazed land in all of Texas, restored it completely and transformed it into a showpiece for environmental restoration.
5VDaQ TIL Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” played on AFN radio in South Vietnam was the signal to Americans to begin evacuation in 1975
nVnB TIL When a journalist innocently asked Pope John XXIII, “Your Holiness, how many people work in the Vatican?” He replied, “About half of them.”
M7b9b TIL that a pipe is supplying water to China’s tallest waterfall, the Yuntai Waterfall. The fall are also one of the country’s most popular natural attractions.
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