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TIL Christopher Lee; Hunted Nazis, is related to Charlemagne and explained to Peter Jackson how a man sounds when stabbed in the back while filming LOTR. Since he had witnessed it before.

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Z86ea TIL that the "McDonald's hot coffee" case was not actually a woman being greedy. She suffered third degree burns from coffee served above 180 Fahrenheit, hot enough to fuse the skin on her lap when spilled. McDonald's knew that it was dangerously hot for more than 10 years, and warned no customers.
grdyA TIL the northernmost inhabited place in the world is "Alert" in Canada. The armed forces stay here all year round in tours, but the official population is 0. Average temperature is -17C (0F).
9YvOX TIL Wolfgang Doeblin, a Jewish-German mathematician fighting for the French during WWII. He committed suicide at 25 after his company was surrounded. A sealed letter he sent to the French Academy of Sciences was opened in 2000, revealing he had already proven a famous result in stochastic calculus.
9YYGX TIL that the American Heart Association and NY Presbyterian Hospital both have separate Spotify playlists to perform Hands-Only CPR to, based on the 100-120 beats per minute requirement. One of their songs is "Another one bites the dust" by Queen.
j61pE TIL spaces between words in documents first appeared in Irish and Anglo-Saxon Bibles in the seventh century. Paleographers today identify the extinction of 'scriptio continua' as a critical factor in augmenting the widespread absorption of knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era.