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TIL that sharks respond to affection similar to dogs, and enjoy pets!

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rRZRy TIL that during the Prague Uprising at the end of WWII, two escaped British POWs approached a garrison of Waffen-SS and claimed to represent a regiment of paratroopers and threatened to call in an airstrike on the building they occupied. The Germans surrendered.
OwaX TIL Police officers are blue because they were originally surplus US army uniforms after the civil war
b6ek0 TIL William Shatner would hide Leonard Nemoy's bicycle because Nemoy used it to get ahead in line at the commissary, going as far as tying it to rafters or placing it in a room with a territorial doberman.
KOgBQ TIL That as McDonald's came to the former Communist nations of Eastern Europe, it became a point of national pride to have one, even being included in football chants to taunt those countries who didn't yet have a McDonalds.
xVxG1 TIL that the video game market accounts for more than half of UK's entertainment sector and is worth more than the music and movie industry combined, according to new report.