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TIL the only ski jumping medalist in United States history won his medal 50 years later after a scoring error was discovered.

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5evP TIL when a North Korean merchant vessel was attacked by pirates, U.S. Navy ships patrolling the area freed their ships, resulting in an exceedingly rare pro-U.S. statement from the North Korean press.
XEanP TIL While filming the 2000 hit movie, Castaway, Tom Hanks received a cut and got a staph infection that nearly killed the Academy Award winning actor. The cut gave him blood poisoning, Hanks was in the hospital for 3 days and production of the movie was shut down for 3 weeks.
yQKpw TIL that during the entire month of December in 2017, Moscow experienced only 6 minutes of sunlight total
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R5aV6 TIL about L-8, a Navy blimp whose crew mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific in 1942, before crashing into a suburb of San Francisco. L-8 was repaired and later became the Goodyear blimp.