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TIL: An 800-pound photo radar speed camera was stolen from a Toronto intersection. It has never been found.

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R7l17 TIL of the RMS Olympic, while transporting troops from US to France, encountered an U-Boat, which the captain decided to ram into, cutting it clean in two, making it the only merchant vessel in WWI to sink an enemy warship.
9Y1Jm TIL there's a demographer and sociologist named Elizabeth Wrigley-Field.
Wk9bA TIL that there are 400 known albino redwoods, which survive by getting sugar through roots of nearby trees.
d7Wd TIL That Wal-Mart Heiress Paige Laurie paid someone to do all her homework at USC, and had to return her degree after she had already graduated.
1a9AD TIL at the beginning of the 19/20 English Premier League football (soccer) season, a fan jokingly placed a £10 bet on infamous Manchester United attacker Jesse Lingard not scoring all season. He lost out on £670 when Lingard scored with his final touch in the final minute of the season’s final game.