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TIL that Roger Moore, who played James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985, actually hated guns and the way society glorified the men who wielded them. Moore hated the publicity photos of himself posing with Bond's signature Walther PPK gun or any other firearm.

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RGma TIL rocker Keith Moon was so destructive to hotel property that once he insisted that the limo return to the hotel because he forgot something. He then went up to his room and tossed the television into the swimming pool below. When he got back into the limo he said, “I nearly forgot.”
grR18 TIL there’s a submerged island in the Mediterranean that has only surfaced 4 or 5 times since the Punic Wars. During its last resurfacing in 1831, the island became subject to territorial dispute by European powers until it submerged again the following year.
ADjxw TIL that 401ks are designed to supplement traditional pensions not replace them and they place greater investment risk on the employee than the employer
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kJpJB TIL that mathematician John von Neumann had an unusual ability to solve new problems. When presented with a problem in programming on which there had been no published literature, he said "Oh, that!", then gave a lecture of over an hour explaining how to solve it using a hitherto unconceived theory