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TIL Betty White was actually the oldest of the four Golden Girls and she outlived all of the other three by over 10 years.

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wkNW TIL sniffer dogs used for finding illegal substances are largely inaccurate, with 4 in 5 ‘positive’ cases being wrong.
7rpmX TIL the 2005 film "Brokeback Mountain" originally intended to star Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix but both actors were uncomfortable with the film's sex scenes and declined the parts.
9xxD TIL The first Canadian casualties in Afghanistan after 9/11 were caused by an American F-16 dropping a bomb on a Canadian military exercise.
1ajJD TIL Korea has 40% of the worlds dolmens (a type of megalith) It is unknown why so many are in the peninsula
p6NN TIL Despite the fact that Jesse Owens won four gold medals during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, US President Franklin Roosevelt never congratulated or invited him to the White House. ‘Hitler didn’t snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me,’ Owens said