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TIL of Sandy Woodward who commanded the British task force during the Falklands War and ensured that the Argentinian forces were defeated, before Winter made this impossible, mapping the logistics out accordingly.

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ae8L TIL McDonald’s ran a McResource website and phone line, giving advice to employees to do things like return unopened Christmas gifts to get out of debt and assiting them in applying for food stamps.
nLRG TIL of Ken Allen (1971–2000), an orangutan at the San Diego Zoo. Not only did he escape 3 times, his peers began following his example & escaped too. He outwitted zookeepers even when they posed as visitors. During his escapes, Ken would “peacefully stroll around the zoo looking at other animals.”
R75Ba TIL Robin Williams was one of just 20 students accepted into Julliard in 1973. While his comedic genius was immediately obvious, he wasn't taken seriously until his portrayal of a wheelchair-bound old man in the Tennessee Williams play "The Night of the Iguana" during a third-year acting class.
1ar6r TIL that before casting John Travolta as Vincent Vega in "Pulp Fiction", Quentin Tarantino invited him to his apartment (which was the same exact apartment Travolta lived in when he first got his start) to play a vintage "Welcome Back Kotter" board game.