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TIL that Dildo is a town in Newfoundland. They have an annual festival, Dildo Days, which is led by their mascot, Captain Dildo.

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9YbjM TIL of "Unsinkable Sam," a ship cat that served during WWII for both the German and British navies, and allegedly survived three separate shipwrecks
696AZ TIL during WWII, RAF bomber command suffered a casualty rate of 59.1% and a fatality rate of 44.4%
rREdd TIL that on Fleetwood Mac's 1971 tour, one of their guitarists left to "get a magazine" and never came back. When he was found a few days later, he had joined a cult and quit the band.
lobPB TIL That Point Break, the movie starring Keanu Reeves about surfers who rob banks in LA to finance their endless summer, was almost called Riders on the Storm (The Doors, song)
VBOK4 TIL Mercedes Benz, the flagship car brand of the Nazis, was named after a Jewish girl, who's grandfather was a well regarded rabbi and intellectual in the Jewish community in Vienna.