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TIL A bank robber hired decoys on Craigslist and escaped down a creek on a Inner tube

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9YVbr TIL One Oil Spill Has Been Leaking Into The Gulf of Mexico For 14 YEARS and if it's not stopped (according government estimates) the leak could go on for 100 more years. Litigation is ongoing.
WkXmN TIL Häagen-Dazs was created in the 1960s by an American couple living in the Bronx. They used a Danish-sounding name because it conveyed an "aura of the old-world traditions and craftsmanship" and added an umlaut even though that punctuation doesn't exist in the Danish language to make it stand out.
epOY6 TIL Record for worst time in Olympic marathon event is 54 years 8 months 6 days 5 hours 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds, held by Shizo Kanakuri
wLWxJ TIL that Jim Hanks, the brother of Tom Hanks, does the voice acting for Woody in many commercials, shows, and games while Tom does the big movies and shows
a8GNA TIL that in his classic Western spoof Blazing Saddles (1974), Mel Brooks named his character Gov. LePetomane after that of a 19th century French stage act of he same name. Flatulist Joseph Pujols combined the French verb péter ("to fart") with "mane" (maniac), loosely translating to "thefartmaniac".