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TIL that Get Smart’s hilarious Don Adams served honorably as a Marine during WWII and fought on Guadalcanal, the only survivor of his platoon. Later, he served as a Drill Instructor. Ooh Rah Mr. Adams on this Memorial Day!

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D1nRY TIL that there is a monument in Georgia which gives instructions in 8 languages on how to rebuild society after an unknown apocalyptic event, whilst also functioning as a compass, calendar and clock
oBNJE TIL Bowie's 'China Girl' was written by Iggy Pop and is about China white (heroin) and 'girl' (coke).
Ee1d TIL Harley Quinn was created for Batman: The Animated Series, and didn’t appear in the comic books until two years later
9vP7 TIL the raptor’s barking noises in Jurassic Park were made using recordings of tortoises having sex.
MegKW TIL of surgeon Robert Liston, who in the era of before anaesthetics, could amputate a limb in under 30 seconds and was known, in order to free both hands, to hold the bloody knife in his teeth.