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TIL Canadian Club has been hiding whiskey cases in remote locations since 1967. It took 10 years to find the first one on Mt. Kilimanjaro.

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Z8mbv TIL: The United States Air Force Pararescue (PJs) use the sound bite of "Leeroy Jenkins" from World of Warcraft to notify themselves of an upcoming medevac mission.
8e5wV TIL that the last four-funneled ocean liner to be scrapped was the RMS Aquitania which was in service from 1914-1949.
E1d87 TIL that Hitler was a German intelligence agent after World War I. His first assignment was to infiltrate the German Worker's Party. Hitler quickly became the face of the party, and five months after the army ordered him to join, Hitler renamed it the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
E1QxX TIL: Apophenia is the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things. This includes pareidolia (seeing a face within an inanimate object) and the Gambler's fallacy (seeing patterns in random numbers that appear in lotteries, card games, or roulette wheels).
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