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TIL the opening shot in Bond films was actually filmed through the barrel of a gun

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WpN8 TIL that Giant Squid was Found on Shore of Beach in Spain which Weighed 400 Pounds and Measured 30 Feet Long
XgRD TIL that 23 year old, Joe Arridy, a intellectually disabled man with an IQ of 46, was wrongfully executed in 1939. He was known for playing with his toy train that the prison warden gave him as a present while on death row. Guards and Inmates described him as “the happiest prisoner on death row”
d8pnj TIL Germany still pays pensions to Nazy veterans.
8aGyb TIL Breakfast wasn’t regarded as the most important meal of the day until an aggressive marketing campaign by General Mills in 1944. They would hand out leaflets to grocery store shoppers urging them to eat breakfast, while similar ads would play on the radio.
nbY9 TIL that ‘The Fuller Cut’ barbershop in Michigan, offers $2 off the price of a haircut for children, if they read to the barber while receiving the haircut, hoping to increase the literacy rate in the city, especially among the poorer families.