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TIL there was a British submarine named the “HMS Tally-Ho”

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Ypw7r TIL that firefighters once rushed to a house in Daventry when its smoke alarm went off repeatedly, only to discover that it was actually a parrot who had learned to perfectly imitate its sound.
9Bep TIL that a Womens’ Institute group dressed up as pirates for a talk about piracy. The speaker had actually been kept hostage for 47 days by Somali pirates.
Rnmw TIL there is a font specifically designed to help those with dyslexia, which “weighs down” letters to prevent them from moving around.
aB7b TIL that three of the actors who played Nazis on the WWII sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” were German Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany. Two of them spent time in concentration camps, and another French Jewish actor also spent time in a camp.
4dvX TIL an Australian biotech company called Prana may have a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. Results from the phase II human trials will be released in March