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TIL the sled dog, Togo, was responsible for leading his team through the most dangerous and longest stretch of the 1925 Serum Run by 200 miles. Balto and his team led the last 55 mile stretch into the town of Nome getting most of the credit and media attention.

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gMdx4 TIL in 2018, a social media influencer asked a Dublin hotel for a five-night free stay in exchange for publicity, and broke down in tears in a video when she was bluntly refused. The hotel responded by banning all influencers from its premises
6LEQ TIL a 5 year old child was sacrificed in Chile after the largest earthquake ever recorded. The two charged were released after 2 years, as the judge ruled they “acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition.”
Me0mb TIL: the hit movie Mrs. Doubtfire was originally written as a movie spin off for the TV show Home Improvement. Tim Allen turned down the roll of 2 characters and the idea was scrapped, re-written and handed over to Robin Williams.
lbAB TIL that in 480 BC, the Persians’ bridges were destroyed by storms as they invaded Greece. King Xerxes then ordered his men to give the sea three hundred whip lashes, to throw fetters into it and to burn it with red hot irons. Meanwhile, the punishers were to shout “you are a turbid and briny river”
Pk5L TIL that the producers of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (filmed in 1971 in Munich, Germany) had trouble finding dwarfs–any adult dwarfs at all– for the roles of the Oompa-Loompas. This was because the Nazis had killed so many of them 25 years earlier.