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TIL Liam Neeson’s wife died when his son was 13, six years after he played a recently widowed man with a 13-year-old son in “Love Actually”

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Ovx1 TIL that during the Battle of Moscow, despite German forces closing to within 50 kilometers of the city, the Soviet Union still held the annual military parade marking the revolution. Soviet troops who paraded past the Kremlin, then marched directly to the front line and into battle.

XV0E TIL that during his time at the White House, Herbert Hoover would speak Mandarin to his wife when they wanted to avoid eavesdroppers.

9BoD TIL of John O'neil an FBI agent that tried warning the government of Bin Laden and was forced out of the bureau. He went on to work security the the World Trade Center

D1Nne TIL In 1929, W. Forssmann performed the first human heart cath on himself. He tricked the OR nurse, put himself under local anesthesia, inserted a catheter into his arm, then walked to the X-ray room to see if it reached his heart. He was fired from the hospital, but awarded the Nobel Prize in 1956.

R7vB6 TIL of Fred the labrador, resident dog at Mountfitchet Castle in England, who adopted 9 orphaned ducklings who were wandering the castle grounds after the mother duck disappeared. When Fred goes swimming the the castle moat, the ducks follow him in.