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TIL Actor Jason Statham competed in Diving for Great Britain at the 1990 Commonweath Games in Auckland

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gZk7 TIL that former NSA Intelligence Official William Binney blew the whistle on the NSA’s surveillance activities as early as 2002, and was raided by the FBI in July 2007 in suspicion of his role in a New York Times Expose on warrant-less wiretapping.
dPW8 TIL: The Secret of NIMH was inspired by a real experiment with rats at the National Institute of Mental Health which suggests society will always collapse when it gets too big.
wOB8 TIL when Rodney Dangerfield died they held a Native American butterfly-release ceremony hosted by Farrah Fawcett.
rN0 TIL: In 1976 there was a wine tasting in Paris that blindly compared Californian wines to French wines. California won and the lone reporter covering the event was blacklisted for reporting it.
RMw8 TIL when asked by a kidnapper to get out of the car, Princess Anne replied “Not bloody likely!”, before diving out of the far side.