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TIL that Simon Pegg, Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender, and Colin Hanks all starred in Band Of Brothers as background soldiers before they became stars

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kJ6Q4 TIL of the HMS Black Joke, a former slave ship captured and given to the British West Africa squadron. Over a 5 year career she captured dozens of slave ships and freed thousands of African slaves bound for the Western Hemisphere.
7rR7X TIL that when Nicolaus Copernicus proposed heliocentrism in 1543, there was only mild opposition from the Church. But 73 years later Galileo's defence of the same was called heresy. He was threatened with torture and put under house arrest.
YXPZ TIL the logo of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is the kiwi, a flightless bird.
JYWNl TIL that bills making North Dakota and South Dakota into states were signed on the same day, and President William Harrison deliberately shuffled the papers together so history would be forever unable to tell which legally came into being as a state the first.
Xbj6 TIL Google hires camels to capture “street view” in deserts