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TIL the highest fee for crossing the Panama Canal was $375,600, while the lowest fee was 36 cents by someone who swam through it

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NoAM TIL that a $350m drillship built in the early ‘70s by US billionaire, Howard Hughes, to collect 'mineral riches’ from the ocean floor was actually a cover for the CIA to be used to lift a lost Soviet submarine, loaded with nuclear missiles, up from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 3 miles deep
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YpY1G TIL In the opening scene of the Disney movie 'The Little Mermaid', when King Triton arrives at the arena, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck and Kermit the Frog can be briefly seen in the crowd of sea-people.
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