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9wOwG TIL about a man named John Martin who tried to sail from Alaska to China to visit his wife and son in an 8-foot dinghy, but instead washed up in Russia where he was later held for four months awaiting deportation
9g5G TIL that the inventor of the first ever video game also helped to invent the first nuclear bomb.
yQGBe TIL Alan Turing's Bombe machine, built to crack Germany's Enigma-encrypted messages during WWII, was far too slow to decrypt messages until he realized that all encrypted messages ended with "Heil Hitler." They were then able to decrypt messages within hours, and change the course of the war.
W7vaA TIL The streets of Iqaluit, Nunavut didn't have names until the Queen paid an official visit in 2002 when the city renamed the Ring Road to Queen Elizabeth II Way. She also wondered if Iqaluit streets ran in a north-south, east-west grid pattern, as they do in some European cities
oBM4W TIL the Palm Dog Award is awarded to the best performance by a canine (live or animated) at the Cannes Film Festival, with its name being a play on words of the Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honor. Notable awardees include Dug in Up (2009) and Sayuri in Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019)