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TIL that a Norwegian politician once suggested that Keiko, the whale who starred in Free Willy, be killed and his meat sent to Africa as food aid.

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e0pmL TIL of the Blue Ocean strategy, wherein companies cease attempting to compete with other companies. The name refers to an ocean that is clear (no competition) as compared to a red ocean: stained with the blood of other companies. The Nintendo Wii is an example of a successful Blue Ocean strategy.
1aj6r TIL in 2018 a 47 year old man, wielding a hammer, tried to steal one of the four remaining copies of England's Magna Carta - a document drafted in 1215 that inspired the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
N7mG1 TIL "The 1 Second Film" is a film project intending to feature 1 second of animation followed by 1 hour of credits. $1 or above donors to the film's crowdfund received a producer credit, this caused havoc as the IMDb listing reached over 3,000 producers. Ultimately the film was removed from IMDb.
XEw1k TIL the Schloss Starkenberger Brewery in Tarrenz, Austria houses seven 13-foot-long pools of beer. Each two-hour swim costs almost $260.
wLkyW TIL that the writer of the hymn "Amazing Grace" had an incredibly filthy mouth. During his time as a sailor he was: "admonished several times for not only using the worst words the captain had ever heard, but creating new ones to exceed the limits of verbal debauchery"