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Today I learned Tommy Lee Jones has an alternative career as a spokesman for the Japanese Coffee Company Boss and he's a BOSS!

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bbLQ TIL that during the battle of Wizna, 800 polish soldiers held off 42,000 nazi soldiers for 3 days. Once the poles ran out of bullets, their commander threw himself on a grenade instead of surrendering. The battle is referred to as the Polish Thermopylae.
N7Wee TIL Michael Collins had spinal fusion surgery in 1968 and was removed from the crew of Apollo 8. It caused a rotation in astronaut assignments that landed him into a prime position on the historic Apollo 11 moon landing
0o0p TIL the screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean was finished in the 1990s. Steven Spielberg stumbled upon it and campaigned to direct the film with Robin Williams starring as Jack Sparrow
XYRj TIL When Jimmy Kimmel asked a group of children how to solve America’s debt problem after telling them “America owes China a lot of money, $1.3 trillion” one kid responded with “kill everyone in china.”
XEOYE TIL in 2006 a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting matches. When passengers alerted crew they could smell burning the flight made an emergency landing and the FBI were called in to conduct an investigation