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TIL that there are four national cemeteries that are allowed to fly their flags at half mast all the time - Pearl Harbor, Gettysburg, Arlington, and Mackinac Island

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woGbP TIL In Cheongju, South Korea, a gang of thieves rented a hotel and spent a month digging a secret tunnel to gain access to a nearby oil pipeline in order to siphon it. They've managed to dug 10 meters deep and reached the pipeline, but a police raid caught them before they could steal any oil.
g1e8 TIL Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad’s Saul Goodman) read his lines for the final episode only. He threw the script in the trash and made sure he won’t find out the ending until it airs on television (FIXED)
5YP7B TIL in 1999, a Las Vegas couple were unable to come to a decision on how to split up their Beanie Baby collection during their divorce settlement. A judge ordered them to dump their collection on the floor of the court and take turns picking them one-by-one.
6MmZ TIL the infinite monkey theorem, which states that an infinite number of monkeys will eventually write any text, was tested with 5 real monkeys. They managed to type 5 pages largely consisting of the letter S, but they also starting bashing the keyboard with a rock, defecating and urinating on it.
VB110 TIL In 1987, an 18-month-old baby named Jessica McClure fell into an abandoned well in Texas and was trapped for 58 hours. The rescue operation involved drilling a parallel shaft and then tunneling through to reach her, and it was captured on live television.