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TIL that Matthew McConaughey has a brother named Rooster, who named his son Miller Lite and his daughter Margarita

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VMRR0 TIL A British Royal Marine threw himself onto a grenade to save the lives of his comrades. His body armour and backpack shielded him from the blast. He was left with just a nosebleed and headache.
9Y676 TIL Serbian is practically the only European language whose speakers are fully functionally digraphic: that is, they commonly use two different alphabets to read and write (Cyrillic and Latin)
Ypnlv TIL The bottlenose dolphin sleeps by shutting down half its brain along with the opposite eye. The other half remains awake at a low level of alertness to watch for predators and to surface to breath. After about two hours it reverses the process so the other half can rest.
wLaoM TIL the $150 million fundraised by Band Aid in 1984 (where the famous song "Do They Know It's Christmas" comes from), which was meant to help famine-struck Ethiopia, actually lead to more deaths since it was given to the corrupt government who used the money to prolong the famine and civil war.
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