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TIL the only public commercial hovercraft service in the world connects Portsmouth with the Isle of Wight

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awaMA TIL the horror film Poltergeist (1982) was rated PG, due to the original vote for an R rating being overturned and because there was no PG13 rating at the time.
84eV TIL the German word for ‘birth control pill’ is 'antibabypille’
86ZX TIL 8000 people follow a twitter account called “Cologne Cathedral” that tweets “DONG” every hour. The amount of “DONGs” shows the time.
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odMo TIL that on September 10, 2001, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon had wasted or misplaced up to $2.3 trillion, or $8,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country, and promised to go after the unchecked Pentagon bureaucracy