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TIL the the Royal Canadian Mounted Police place undercover sky marshals on every Canadian flight to Ronald Regan Washington National Airport

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E149V TIL that approximately 300 people live in the tunnels under Las Vegas in order to do drugs or be alone in general.
gEvD TIL - The largest predator in history—bigger than megalodon, bigger than predator X, nearly thrice as large as a T-Rex—is alive right now. It’s the Sperm Whale.
5VgrD TIL Mother's day is celebrated at different times all over the world. It's not an international holiday.
064p TIL of George Raveling, Nike’s director of International Basketball, who currently holds the original typewritten copy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. MLK handed it to him when he stepped off the podium, and Raveling has kept it to this day and refuses to sell it.
EgMlX TIL about John L Burns, a 70-year-old veteran of the war of 1812 who was caught in the crossfire during the battle of Gettysburg in 1863; after being released from his confederate prison, he promptly arrested the traitorous stragglers and took up his flintlock against the rest.