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TIL the GoT & West World Theme songs were created by the same composer.

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yQk0M TIL that in 1986, a organ transplant aircraft broke down in Fargo resulting in the governor summoning an F-4 Phantom to transport a heart to California for a recipient.
ANgAo TIL in 2009 an American tourist was almost left behind by his transcontinental Australian train. He clung to the outside for two hours and 124 miles in only a t-shirt and jeans while the temperature dropped below freezing.
noR7 TIL that Gerald Ford is the only person ever to be Vice President, and later President, without being elected to either office.
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OGa46 TIL that Robert Downey Jr. got a nomination at the Academy Awards for his role in Tropic Thunder