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TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen never played chess in their life until the movie X-Men required them to do so. A chess master came in to teach them.

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4kmnR TIL about Christine Granville, a WW2 spy and Polish aristocrat - Winston Churchill would declare her as his favourite spy. She talks her way into service with M16, gets captured by Germans twice but escapes, and rescues her lover from execution by firing squad.
6EmBw TIL people used to dress up in costumes for Thanksgiving like they do now for Halloween.
g80y TIL in 1976 Elvis spent ~$16,000 for a midnight return flight from Memphis to Denver to eat a Fools Gold sandwich which consists of one jar of Skippy creamy peanut butter, one jar of Smucker’s grape jelly, and one pound of lean bacon fried crisp.
9YeGm TIL National Masturbation Day, also known as International Masturbation Day, is an annual event to protect and celebrate the right to masturbate. The first National Masturbation Day was celebrated on May 7, 1995 in US.
dDva9 TIL the Paralympics started because of disabilities resulting from WW2, so this will be the first one in Paris even though it’s hosted the Olympics three times.