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TIL Wilson the Volleyball from Cast Away has its own IMDB page.

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4kg56 TIL General Montgomery had two puppies which travelled with him during WWII and he named them 'Hitler' and 'Rommel'.
yQNyv TIL that The War of 1812 was America's most unpopular war and that it generated more intense opposition than any other war in the nation's history, including the war in Vietnam.
NaP1 TIL the first African American to hold an international pilot license was Bessie Coleman, a woman who had to learn to fly in France when no one would agree to train her in the US because of her gender and race. She was licensed two years before Amelia Earhart was.
VXp4 TIL Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul in Bordeaux during World War II, defied a direct order from his own government and issued transit visas to as many as 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazis
0d8Kp TIL of the Sul Ross Desk, an attraction outside the college town of Alpine, Texas that is a teachers desk left abandoned by a group of Sul Ross State students on top of a mountain in 1979.