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TIL that in 1975 A Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess wrote an early draft script for The Spy Who Loved Me which climaxed with James Bond using acupuncture to foil hippy terrorists

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nRnG TIL of Guevedoces, people who exist only in a small community in the Dominican Republic. They are boys who are born without male sex organs, looking mostly identical to girls until puberty when their male sex organs grow in.
9PBp TIL lead shot used to be manufactured in tall “shot towers,” where molten lead was run through a sieve and dropped from a great height to produce perfectly spherical balls. Many of these towers still exist.
6gJw TIL that in 2008 the Pittsburgh SWAT won the “aerial shoot” of that year’s International Sniper Competition at Fort Benning, beating out more than 30 teams from across the world, including U.S. Special Forces, Marines and Army snipers.
R70p1 TIL that after his experience playing Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump, Gary Sinise established a charity to help disabled veterans.
4Maw TIL During the Second World War, Pablo Picasso remained in Paris while the Germans occupied the city. During one search of his apartment, a German officer saw a photograph of the painting Guernica. “Did you do that?” the German asked Picasso. To which he replied “No, you did”.