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TIL people are using Google Maps to make other people aware of dangerous landmine fields in Kosovo

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Ww8B TIL that Swissair Flight 111, which crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada in 1998, was carrying half-a-billion dollars worth of diamonds and other jewels in the cargo hold. 98% of the aircraft was recovered, but the jewels are still missing.
4XBQ5 TIL Mr bean only had 15 episodes
oOE8 TIL Disney World is on the 2nd Floor. The Ground Floor is an above-ground system of tunnels that moves employees around the park.
KOvk4 TIL during production of the 1935 musical Cain and Mabel the film crew realized the sound stage wasn't big enough, but they didn't have time to rip the roof off and build the walls up, so WB put hand jacks around the it and raised it off the ground before building wall underneath it.
KYoOB TIL that the Big Bang Theory was first proposed by a Catholic priest