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TIL that “shuttlecock calibrator” is a real job

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MeZeB TIL that the lowest house number in the UK is not 1. It is -2. There are also houses with non-integer numbers like 6.5, and a street called Street Road.
D1PAj TIL the American government manipulated the outcomes of every Italian election for at least 24 years, starting in 1946
Zx4R TIL that Pierce Brosnan was contractually forbidden from wearing a full tuxedo in any non-James Bond movie from 1995-2002
LkeBp TIL about the 6 Day War, Where the Israelis achieved some absolutely incredible victories against the odds, and defeated a whole region of enemies in 6 days using superior strategy and ferocious ground troops.
kOZw7 TIL: The tiny island of Ōkunoshima in Japan (otherwise known as Usagi Jima or "Bunny Island"), previously the WWII manufacturing site for thousands of tons of poison gas, is now home to hundreds of feral rabbits and nobody is quite sure where they came from.