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TIL Street artist Banksy agreed to sneak on set of Stephen Merchants TV comedy Outlaws and paint street art, which Christopher Walken was then asked to painted over.

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Z8wnv TIL The bezel on a dive watch only turns counterclockwise so that if the bezel is bumped accidentally during a dive it will only move in one direction, subtracting time from the dive and prompting the diver to surface early rather than staying under for too long.
GaG4 TIL: Japanese gang lords barred from entry to the US were given liver transplants at UCLA. During those years over 400 patients died waiting for livers in the LA area.
1a4gO TIL of Valerie Browning - a woman who with her husband Ishmael has been serving the people of Afar, Ethiopia (one of the hottest places on earth) since 1973. She grew up in Armidale, New South Wales. She has been providing medicine, food and education to the people living there.
5VOBD TIL The very distinctive black and white pattern of Killer Whales (Orcas) serves as a form of camouflage from their prey. Like military airplanes that are colored light on the undersides and dark on top, this color pattern makes the whales less visible from both above and below.
OQe7 TIL TLoZ: Ocarina of Time is still one of the most momentous and highest reviewed video games of all time, receiving perfect review scores from the majority of gaming publications that reviewed it.