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TIL Michael Caine’s real name is Maurice Micklewhite.

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grVx7 TIL The “smoker’s lung” demo in schools is actually “inflatable swine lungs stained realistically” to “unforgettably demonstrate the effects of prolonged smoking”
d8V5Z TIL: Crying is good for you because emotional/stress tears carry higher levels of stress hormones being flushed out of your system and higher levels of mood-regulating manganese.
v14ZB TIL Sasha Baron Cohen once used an alter-ego to interview a concierge in Las Vegas who admitted to possess contact information for deliverance of kids down to the age of 8. Sasha left the scene out of his show and provided the footage to FBI who decided not to pursue the case.
MeagK TIL New Orleans architectural historian Samuel Wilson, Jr. stated that the term "shotgun" house is a reference to the idea that if all the doors are opened, a shotgun blast fired into the house from the front doorway will fly cleanly to the other end and out at the back.
GV7N TIL that the Greek navy maintains a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme, the HS Olympias. Kept in dry dock in Athens, it is the only ship of its kind in the world.