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TIL for whom the bell tolls does not mean that the dead cant hear the bells

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7ryPx TIL That Sean Bean was afraid of flying in Helicopters during the filming of Lord of the Rings. The Crew would look down at 7:30 AM and see him fully dressed in costume climbing cliffs all by himself.
R78J7 TIL of Vasily Blokhin. He was the Chief Executioner for the Stalinist NKVD. He holds the world record as the "Most Prolific Executioner" with 7,000 recorded executions in 28 days.
ALZ7 TIL That the Terminator’s use of a box of roses to conceal a shotgun in the movie ‘Terminator 2’ is a pun on Guns N’ Roses.
m1eKP TIL the Nobel Peace Prize wasn’t awarded in 1948 because the committee wanted to give it to Mahatma Gandhi — but he had been assassinated earlier that year. On the grounds that “there was no suitable living candidate”.
XEDeE TIL of William Kamkwamba, who at the age of 15 taught himself how to build windmills out of junk to provide his family electricity, and later to pump water for his community that was suffering from a huge drought. He did all of this through library books, as his family couldn't afford schooling.