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TIL Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer as a teenager.

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b6oXp TIL the original signed manuscripts of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto were nearly lost in WWII when being transported for safekeeping to Prussia by train in the care of a librarian. The train came under aerial bombardment and the librarian escaped to a nearby forest with the scores hidden in his coat.
xVrE1 TIL that the flag of West Virginia is the only US State flag with crossed rifles, meant to illustrate the importance of the state's fight for liberty during the Civil War.
oBKZW TIL that 99% of people on internet communities are lurkers and only 1% actively create new content, according to a rule known as the the 1% rule.
k75g TIL that in 1950 ‘One of the largest human experiments in history’ was conducted on unsuspecting residents of San Francisco by the US military in a germ-warfare simulation and Nuremberg Code violation that utilized the Bay Area’s iconic fog to help spread two kinds of bacteria over the city.
XLJk TIL The Queen and Margaret Thatcher once wore the same dress, much to the prime minister’s horror. To avoid such an embarassment again, she ordered her staff to ask the Palace what the Queen would be wearing. The Palace declined, saying “Her Majesty never notices what other people wear.”