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TIL The film Baby Driver was inspired by Noel Fielding's performance in a Mint Royale music video

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94YD TIL Spain’s Paralympic basketball team were ordered to return their gold medals won in Sydney in 2000 after nearly all of their players were found to have no disability.
VMMJ4 TIL Elvis Presley asked president Nixon for a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs - which he was given and therefore basically made him an undercover DEA agent
VM8WB TIL that a Brownie or Broonie (Scots), also known as a brùnaidh or gruagach (Scottish Gaelic), is a household spirit from Scottish folklore that is said to come out at night while the owners of the house are asleep and perform various chores and farming tasks.
5VNVR TIL Mr T was the youngest child of 12 children. He and his four sisters and seven brothers grew up in a three-bedroom apartment.
nWBnW TIL that over 30,000 U.S. service members and veterans of the post-9/11 wars have died by suicide — over four times as many as have died in combat.