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TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien and Hitler fought against each other in the Battle of Somme (WWI)

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eM44 TIL Chevy Chase avoided the draft by falsely claiming he was homosexual.
xVj0g TIL about Bass Reeves. 1838 – 1910 The first black deputy Marshall west of the Mississippi River. He worked mostly in Arkansas and the Oklahoma territory. During his long career, he was credited with arresting more than 3,000 felons (including his own son). He shot and killed 14 outlaws.
0d9rN TIL The Stranglers hit single 'Golden Brown' peaked at #2 in the U.K. Lead singer Hugh Wilson said it could have been #1 if their bassist hadn't mentioned that it was about heroin. "I would have waited till it got to Number 1 and THEN said it," he commented.
RXM4 TIL that the movie Crocodile Dundee’s character was loosely based on a man called Rod Ansell, who was lost in the outback for 56 days, sued Paul Hogan for not profiting from the film, lost his property, started growing weed, got hooked on meth and ended up dying in a drug fuelled police shootout.
O7wR TIL that in the Japanese version of Fallout 3, there is no option to rig the Megaton bomb to explode due to the still sensitive memory of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.