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TIL that the guy who voices Mr Krabs in Spongebob is the bad prison warder in Shawshank Redemption

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R8ma TIL there is a company specialising in making hidden doorways \ rooms for your home. One requires a chess board played in a certain combo to unlock.
ZppOo TIL the iconic black & white stripes on the allied D-Day airplanes were a last minute idea to help the allied naval anti-aircraft gunners more easily identity friendly planes. This was done after frequent "friendly fire" incidents during the previous invasion of Sicily
6yMZ TIL that in 1994 a 75-pound bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Florida crime watch meeting.
a8Glb TIL Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre with his character C. Auguste Dupin, who preceded Sherlock Holmes by 46 years. In Sherlock Holmes's first story, Watson directly compares Holmes to Dupin.
oR7nL TIL that a teen boy from the UK became legally blind while having a diet of potato chips and fries