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TIL Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice

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M7NKa TIL of the April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire and the "Bulgarian Horrors" it resulted in. It was brutally suppressed by the Ottomans by massacring some 15,000 Bulgarians, resulting in a public outcry in across Europe and eventually to Bulgaria's freedom.
rmpd TIL Anderson Cooper is the great-great-great grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
6E6ew TIL that Rambo has been adopted into the folklore of the Kamula people. They believe he will fight to defend Papua New Guinea in the Third World War.
epN0b TIL the Great Chicago Fire wasn’t even the deadliest fire in the midwest the day it happened. The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin burned 1.2 million acres and killed anywhere from 1500 to 2500 people, five times as many as the Great Chicago Fire.
m1mQv TIL the first Oscars, in 1929, lasted 15 minutes and the longest ceremony was 2002, which lasted four hours and twenty-three minutes.