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TIL An advertising campaign for Swedish fashion company “H&M” with posters of Anna Nicole Smith caused several car accidents in major European cities in 1994.

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Mepk7 TIL about the Great Papago Escape where twenty-five Germans successfully tunneled out of an Arizona POW camp near Phoenix. They built a raft, hoping to float their way down the Salt River, and eventually into the Gulf of California. Their plan failed when they learned the river was mostly dry.
MeWG0 TIL That the Scaly Foot Gastropod lives in hydrothermal vents up to 750°F, doesn't eat food, and is the only living creature that encorporates iron into its skeleton.
6EknQ TIL that the island council of Mackinac Island in Michigan had to give special permission for the 1980 Christopher Reeve movie 'Somewhere In Time' to bring cars on the island as (other than emergency vehicles) cars are prohibited. The cars brought for the production were limited to filming areas.
9Wg7 TIL Utah, despite being known as one of the most religious and wholesome states, ranks number one out of all fifty states in online porn subscriptions.
MXAK TIL that the current pope penned a document on how to cover up a pedophile priest scandal