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TIL Alec Guinness warned James Dean about his car one week before the deadly crash

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NXnGN TIL that a man died in the lighthouse he built. Henry Winstanley was so confident in the lighthouse's design that he wished to be inside during "the greatest storm there ever was". The lighthouse was completely destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703, killing Winstanley.
VM4dZ TIL in 1991, Escobar invited Maradona to play football with him in luxurious prison- La Catedral. It was followed up with a lavish party.
y6j8 TIL - 100% of Iceland’s population has the internet, the only country in the world.
VB0GG TIL that in 1992, Zhang Shan was the first and only woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal in skeet shooting competing against men. At the next Olympic games, men and women had their own categories.
e0b0E TIL that Willard's voice-overs for Apocalypse Now weren't performed by Martin Sheen, but by his brother Joe Estevez.