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TIL in 1851, we had measuring tools with a precision of one millionth of an inch.

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bGy7 TIL that in the film The Dark Knight, the man who shouted “we are not intimidated by thugs,” to the Joker, was actually Patrick Leahy, the senior senator from Vermont and a self-confessed batman fan. He has appeared in a cameo role for every other Batman film since Batman Forever.
e01A4 TIL that Canada still has 91% of the forest cover that existed at the beginning of European settlement
X0Xa8 TIL there are trams that survived the bombing of Hiroshima and are still in use today.
YpQOr TIL That stabbing chest pain we all get sometimes and think we'll die is called Precordial Catch Syndrom or PCS
BO8y TIL in 1994 a 74 year old man unable to get a driver’s license drove 240 miles on a 1966 John Deere lawnmower to visit his brother who recently had a stroke. At a top speed of 5 mph, the journey took 6 weeks.