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TIL that the Big Ben is the name of the largest of the five bells which hang within the clock and not the name of the landmark clock.

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p8dBp TIL In 2003, US Intelligence developed a set of playing cards featuring the most wanted members of Saddam Hussein’s regime. They were disturbed among troops to help them identify targets. As of 2018, all but 6 of the 52 most wanted have been either killed, or captured.
5D8Q TIL that Stevie Wonder is blind because he was born six weeks premature, which, along with the oxygen-rich atmosphere in the hospital incubator, resulted in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a condition in which the growth of the eyes is aborted and causes the retinas to detach
4XeNw TIL: Kelsey Grammar's daughter is the voice actor of 'Summer' in rick and morty.
d8WL9 TIL cats are one of only a few rare mammals that are unable to tell if food is sweet
PVlV TIL Gene Wilder is still alive, and hasn’t acted in a movie, because he is tired of “the bombing, shooting, killing, swearing and 3-D.”