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TIL a bridge in Ireland that was designed to swing open for ships couldn't be opened for four years because someone lost the remote control

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WkopN TIL of Conrad Veidt, the man who played the villain in Casablanca, who gave up a career as one of the highest-paid actors in Germany in '33. When forced to declare his race for the government he wrote "Juden" despite not being Jewish, because his wife was and he wouldn't renounce her.
nxQb TIL United States has been stockpiling helium since the 1960s - 1.2 billion cubic meters
mnPY TIL Jesus is mentioned more times in the Koran than Muhammad
DPrP TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary quotes the Beastie Boys nine times
PYV6Z TIL that Henry Ford once tried to start a colony in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest called "Fordlandia", in which the locals were forced to live a midwestern American lifestyle until they rebelled and chased their managers into the forest