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mQYx TIL all of the actors in “Pirates of the Caribbean” learned how to work with cannons and swords in Pirates School, which included getting trained by the late famed swordsman Bob Anderson, who also was the lightsaber master who fought battles as Darth Vader in Star Wars films
J1Nym TIL that due to an error at the 1932 Summer Olympics, the 3,000 meter steeplechase went on for 460 meters (1 lap) longer than intended.
GDxJ TIL If you were to watch every Simpsons episode back to back, it would take you 11 days 13 hours and 30 minutes
X0pnD TIL Texas almost sent it's state militia to seize Santa Fe from the United States government by force and could have triggered an earlier American Civil War in the 1850s with prominent Southern and Northern newspapers or legislators warning about this possibility
OW81 TIL of James William Boyd, a Confederate soldier who disappeared. It has been theorized that he was John Wilkes Booth’s decoy after Lincoln was assassinated.