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TIL the bobsled used in the film Cool Runnings was stolen from a bar in Calgary where it sat since the film wrapped.

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d80NK TIL an american dentist inscribed the words "Remember Pearl Harbor" secretly in morse code inside the dentures of former Japanese PM Gen. Hideki Tojo who ordered the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
W74k4 TIL The Soviet Union started digging the world's deepest borehole in 1979. It achieved a true vertical depth of 12,262 metres (7.619 mi) in 1989.
4kZB6 TIL The town of Linlithgow, Scotland features a black hound on its coat of arms based on an old folk tale. Because of that, those born within the town are known as "Black Bitches"
6E7dl TIL Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary use of lower-class Saxon English to write his works. rather than conventional Latin or upper class spoken French, has perplexed scholars for centuries. He was the first to truly begin to develop English into a highly flexible literary language.
B7nL TIL the Wright Brothers hated the first director of the Smithsonian Institution, who claimed that he flew before them. If the Smithsonian ever gives credit to earlier claims of controlled and powered manned flight, the Wright Brothers’ plane must be returned to Orville’s estate.