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TIL that the French military actually has the best military record in the world having won 723 of the 1211 battles they fought in the last 800 years

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rRAMd TIL that American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis tried to order cocaine from his dealer but instead of texting him he tweeted it to his followers by accident
9YlP6 TIL Monty Python and the Life of Brian would have never been made without £2 million in financing from George Harrison
R7GZ8 TIL Blue eyes are not due to pigmentation, and actually appear blue due to their structure in the same way the sky does.
LrMZ TIL naturalist Chris Packham said he would “eat the last panda if I could have all the money we have spent on panda conservation put back on the table for me to do more sensible things with.”
YLoB TIL that on the day Deepwater Horizon exploded, BP officials had gathered on the platform to celebrate 7 years without an injury or accident