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TIL “Big Ben” isn’t the name of the clock tower, but only a bell inside it. The clocktower is actually called “Elizabeth Tower”.

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yQMNe TIL of Setara Hussainzada, the first woman to ever sing in a TV program in Afghanistan. She received numerous death threads and has been force to live in exile.
kgr7 TIL AI researchers put a worm’s mind in a Lego body and it reacted to it’s environments without any programming. Only mapping the Neurons…
X0EKk TIL Eminem was asked to play the lead role in "Elysium", but declined due to him wanting the film produced in Detroit, his hometown. The role later went to Matt Damon
M7Bg0 TIL Katrina Leung was an FBI informant and double agent for US and China. Codenamed “Parlor Maid” she was recruited to spy on China but eventually passed sensitive intel to China. She had sexual relationships with two FBI agents, James Smith and William Cleveland Jr., both of whom were her handlers.
gZ59 TIL - Stephen King took one of his novels out of print – “Rage” about a boy who kills two teachers and takes his Algebra class hostage.