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TIL There was a rumor that Richard Gere stuck a gerbil in his rectum.

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N7lg6 TIL people vandalize and protest the statue of Winston Churchill, one of the great humans of history - a true giant of our race, a man who may have literally saved the world from Nazi rule
W7rGX TIL that out of 1,231 societies studied in the Ethnographic Atlas, only 186 were strictly monogamous (one partner for life), while 588 often practiced polygyny (men had multiple wives), and 453 did so occasionally. Historically, having more than one wife was far more common than monogamy.
E1W7V TIL that all British tanks are required to be outfitted with tea-making equipment
neyQG TIL Breaking Bad executives were initially wary of casting Bryan Cranston as Walter White, and so offered the role to John Cusack and Matthew Broderick, who both turned it down.
OGxb4 TIL that a Japanese pilot - Nobuo Fujita bombed the US mainland during WWII (the only foreign pilot to bomb the US Mainland) and was later invited back to where he gave his family's 400-year-old katana to the city in friendship.