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TIL Steve Carell owns the old Marshfield General Store, in Marshfield, Massachusetts. He and his family spend their summers there and he bought it as an “emotional investment … to help preserve a little piece of history”.

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gMD7L TIL having expulsed Mexican migrant workers in 1965, a program was created to replace the missing labor with American youth. 3300 teenagers ended up picking crops as a summer job. The conditions were so bad that within 2 weeks 200 had quit and many held strikes. The program was never tried again
x68Xw TIL that a high school student exposed the King of Belgium's illegitimate daughter. Mario Daneels, 18 years old, wrote a biography of Queen Paola, wife of Albert II, in 1999 which revealed the secret. The embarrassing book appeared as Albert's heir Philippe (the current king) was about to marry.
KYBZ6 TIL the British military once had an idea to put live chickens inside nuclear bomb cases with a week's worth of food and water. The bombs were meant to be planted into the ground as mines, so they had to be kept warm in the winter to keep working.
X0BvE TIL that Son Heung-min, captain of both the South Korean national team and Tottenham Hotspur, completed basic training with the Republic of Korea Marine Corps—finishing in the top five out of 157 trainees. He also learned German by watching episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants
NXyG8 TIL that the Cuvier's beaked whale has the deepest and longest recorded dives of any mammal, having been measured at 2,992 m (9,816 ft) and 222 minutes.