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TIL Daniel Day-Lewis hasn’t appear on stage since 1989 after he played Hamlet and claimed to see the ghost of his own father during the performance.

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Gb0g TIL that Marlboro cigarettes were originally designed for women. The iconic red stripe was intended to hide lipstick stains, thus making it appealing to women. When it failed to attract women, the company changed the filter color to a muted brown, slapped a cowboy on it and marketed it to men
oRM7Y TIL Lego is the biggest tyre manufacturer in the world.
jn1v TIL that Pluto didn’t get to make one whole orbit of the sun in the time between its discovery and demotion.
x6agb TIL that some mountain climbers carry their own waste in their backpacks.
mxpYR TIL the German submarine U-530 surrendered to the Argentine Navy on 10 July 1945 at Mar del Plata, an Argentine reporter claimed that he had seen a police report to the effect that the submarine was transporting a officer and a civilian who might have been Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in disguise.