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TIL Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco—African countries—are geographically closer to mainland Europe than Malta, an official European country.

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KOgPB TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch, Doctor Strange in the MCU, saved a cyclist from an attempted robbery by fighting off a gang of muggers in London. He was in an uber when he saw 4 muggers jumping a delivery cyclist. He got out, screamed at the attackers and then dragged them off of the victim.
o70K TIL Jim Bowie - creator of the Bowie knife - was in an epic duel where he was shot 3 times - stabbed with a cane sword which was deflected by his sternum, and bludgeoned with a gun. With his knife he killed one man and severed the forearm of another. He won the fight and lived.
0d7Wj TIL that In 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log in to any Hotmail account using the password 'eh'. At the time, it was called "the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web"
OoPl7 TIL that Mister Rogers, in 1968 --the same year as the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, hired the first black actor to have a recurring role on a children’s show --François Clemmons. Clemmons portrayed a police officer on Mister Rogers neighborhood.
LkZaZ TIL the unfortunately named "Ayds" dieter's chocolate considered a name change when the AIDS crisis hit. Executives resisted with one saying "The product has been around for 45 years. Let the disease change its name." - The name was later changed to "Diet Ayds" before being pulled from the market.