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TIL: Conspiracy theorist, David Icke was a professional footballer for Coventry City FC

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xVGMb TIL that Stephen Cobert donated his portrait to the Smithsonian Institution, which accepted it initially on loan, and displayed it between two bathrooms and above a water fountain at the National Portrait Gallery
ndBb TIL All the royalties made from Hitler’s Mein Kampf since 1979 have been donated to “organisations that promote diversity and cross-cultural understanding”.
GE14 TIL of the island nation of Diego Garcia whose people were expelled by the British in 1971 and forced to live in Mauritian slums, just so that the US could build a military base on the island
P0O TIL Jackie Chan will donate all his money to charity so his son can earn his own worth.
D16ZP TIL that John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is tall – 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), compared to the actors playing hobbits at around 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) so the filming was much easier because he had a perfect proportion to the hobbit actors