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TIL that the only foreign anthem ever played at Buckingham Palace was the American anthem the day after 9/11

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LkMOr TIL Phyllis from "The Office" would pay bills and do Christmas shopping online from the office computers in the background.
1amlD TIL that at the age of 31, Charlie Munger was broke, divorced, and had just buried his 9-year-old son who died from leukemia. Today, Munger is Warren Buffet's "right-hand man," a billionaire and says "Self-pity is not going to improve the situation...however bad it is, just fix it as best you can."
QNr0E TIL the The Warriors was X-rated in France in 1979 for incitement to violence, the French Movies Control Board describing the movie as "a very realistic vision of the urban guerrilla warfare that gangs can develop to conquer a city"
E17Nx TIL Sharks have 2 dicks. Most fish don't have any! Congrats, sharks
P1l4n TIL after making some anti-Semitic comments, Lou Reed was asked if he was Jewish, to which he replied: “Of course, aren’t all the best people?” However, when asked by journalist Lester Bangs about how his songs relate to being Jewish, Reed contrarily answered that he didn’t know any Jewish people.