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TIL: One tiger killed 436 people.
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TIL In 2009, a retired policeman called Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergale Hospital in north Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman called Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK called Geraint Woolford.
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TIL Kelvin Bryant won the USFL's inaugural MVP award, beating out Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker
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TIL Target owns the license for Targét, the pseudo-French pronunciation of Target
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TIL that the "The NeverEnding Story" movie, despite having german producers, a german director and german screenplay authors and being based on a german book, shot mostly in Germany and released in Germany before the US, still was produced in English and features almost exclusively american actors.
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TIL that the Forensic seismology machine that they use to detect nuclear bombs going off in Florida is Falsely alerts that a nuclear bomb went off somewhere in the world every Sunday because the Garbage man comes by the facility and slams the lid of the dumpster too hard, setting off the Detector.