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TIL that Charles Bronson’s family was so poor that at one time he had to wear his sister’s dress to school for lack of clothing.

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neyJY TIL that French fry carts in the Netherlands are like hot dog carts in NYC, they’re on almost every corner! The Dutch love their French fries with mayonnaise, called patat met. ????
AD9xn TIL that in 1988, a man with OCD and extreme germophobia tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head with a rifle. However, he survived, and the bullet completely eliminated his mental disorder without causing any other damage to his brain.
VBYpG TIL the term ‘prequel’ was coined by The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, according to his son, Christopher
woY TIL Israel kamakawiwo'ole (deceased singer of “Over The Rainbow”) was the 3rd person in Hawaiian history to have the flag at half-staff and his coffin placed inside the state Capitol building in Honolulu after his death; the other two people were politicians.
p8VK8 TIL: Godzilla was originally conceived to be a cross between a gorilla and whale. The name is a hybrid of the two Japanese words for those two animals