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TIL the actor who played character Random Task in Austin Powers (the parody of Odd Job from 007 films) is serving a life sentence for torture and rape.

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E1yDV TIL that a tour group thought a woman was missing from their group because she changed her clothes. She even helped in her own missing person search before she realized that the group was looking for her.
wLwBY TIL that during the Austro-Prussian War, Liechtenstein had an army of 80 men. During the conflict no men were injured or killed and they returned home with 81 men because they’d made an Italian friend along the way. The army was then disbanded and Liechtenstein hasn’t had a military since.
8aROL TIL in 1984 a group of paleontologists ate a buffalo stew that had been frozen for 30,000 years. The flavor was reported as tough with an earthy mushroom smell.
PYbVL TIL in 2016 researchers at University of Southampton invented glass chips etched with nanostructures that can be used to store up to 360 terabytes of data for billions of years
7arx TIL Pixar flew a rep out to a 10 year-old girl’s home with a DVD copy of ‘Up’ before it was released because it was her dying wish to see the film. She died 7 hours later.