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TIL of a church that where everyone was late for choir practice when the church exploded and spared all their life’s

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b6evQ TIL there is a 1/25th scale version of the Suez Canal in a French lake to train ship captains.
kJo7 TIL: Bugs Bunny’s nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, originated in a scene in the film It Happened One Night, in which Clark Gable’s character leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full.
b6OE0 TIL American paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade mistakenly raided a working olive oil factory in Bulgaria as part of a large-scale joint exercise with NATO forces.
AoRa TIL Many European zoologists believed that birds hibernated under the sea or flew to the moon in winter until 1822, when a stork was found in Germany with an arrow from Central Africa embedded in its neck, providing the first clear evidence of migration.
wLE6P TIL that the producers of Jim Carrey's The Grinch (2000) hired a CIA operative who instructed agents on how to endure extreme torture techniques to coach Carrey on how to remain calm while they applied his makeup (which took 8 hours the first time).