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TIL Over 2 BILLION people watched the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony

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6EKmW TIL that Mountbatten chose 15th August as India's independence day because it was the day of Japan’s surrender in World War II.
x6v00 TIL the only living queen grandmother in the world is in Bhutan
l78Qa TIL when it was deemed impossible to shoot the tanker fight in The Spy Who Loved Me on an actual supertanker and no other soundstage would fit the set, Albert R Broccoli commissioned the 007 Stage, the biggest in the world at the time.
vxWj TIL Despite widespread media reporting and TIL posts, the most recent scientific evidence suggests Komodo Dragons DO NOT in fact possess or use venom, nor bacterial infection, to overcome and bring down prey. They kill through ambush attacks and laceration, resulting in trauma and heavy blood loss.
NwQe TIL a bully dropped 7 year old Mike Tyson’s glasses in a truck’s gas tank and tried to steal his meatballs. Several years later, Tyson came back and “beat him in the streets like a fucking dog.”