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TIL Heathrow Airport has a secret £3,300 VIP service used by world leaders and A-list celebrities

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GY0b5 TIL In the early 1960s The Friars Club unknowingly hosted a 5-year long elaborate card cheating scheme involving celebrities, the mafia, an accomplice peering through a hole in the ceiling, and wireless codes sent to a vibrating device hidden on the cheater at the table below. Millions were lost.
rNamM TIL: Art was once an Olympic sport. This was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin (Founder of modern games) Between 1912 and 1948 medals were given out for sporting-inspired masterpieces of architecture, music, painting, sculpture and literature.
6EXJZ TIL Bob Barker is part Sioux and spent most of his childhood living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota
rRLx4 TIL screenwriter Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Iron Man 3) is known for obnoxiously breaking the 4th wall in his scripts. An example is when he describes a house as "the kind of house that I'll buy if this movie is a huge hit". These quips have become to be known as "Shane Blackisms" in the industry.
9YJAD TIL - Companies can be affected by the names of other organizations and it is called Damaging Doppelgangers.