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TIL Michael Caine’s real name is Maurice Micklewhite.

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XxKD TIL London has an elevated system of walkways between buildings that was more or less abandoned in the 1980s.
7rZZ7 TIL that Tarrare, a man living in the 1700s, had an endless appetite due to unknown causes. In one case, he ate 15 meals in a single sitting, and his endless hunger led him, while in a hospital, to eat piles of garbage, as well as trying to drink other patients blood and eat corpses from the morgue.
7bpr TIL that Mexico was once almost as large as the Roman Empire
kJe64 TIL that bodies left in wet, cold conditions (often large bodies of water) go through a process of saponification, and fat deposits turn into soap.
8k0Z TIL in 1956, due to a combination of air friction and a steepened dive path, an F-11 Tiger shot itself down with its own gunfire