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TIL that because Subarus use unconventional construction and high strength steel in the B pillars, first responders had to develop new techniques for extracting crash victims.

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KOyl6 TIL when two soldiers in the Canadian Airborne beat a Somalian teenager to death, and then their superiors attempted to cover it up, the Canadian government disbanded the entire Canadian Airborne
rRb0x TIL Eyes Wide Shut (1999) holds the record for longest continuous film shoot at 400 days. It was also Stanley Kubrick's final film.
GYZ1j TIL that City Park in New Orleans holds the world's largest collection of mature live oak trees, some older than 600 years in age.
W5R9 TIL there is a genus called “Han” which contains only one species: Han Solo
NkRe TIL Weird Al would take his dates to see The Naked Gun (in which he had a cameo), while even wearing the same Hawaiian shirt he wore in the film, to see them “flip out”