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TIL that despite its name, the Bloody Mary cocktail was actually invented in France, not England.

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5PKn TIL Yugoslavia spent $6 billion constructing an underground airport that can withstand a direct strike from a 20 kiloton nuclear warhead
5YQdR TIL of the Pay It Forward Principle. This involves doing a good deed for three people and asking each of them do a good deed for three people and so on. After only 21 repetitions of this all 7.4 billion people on the planet would be reached by such a scheme.
6wA8 TIL of the Mallows Bay ghost fleet, a massive group of US WWI ships intentionally sunk in the Potomac River, about an hour’s drive from Washington, DC. Along with other wrecks in the immediate area, some 200 ships dating back to the Revolutionary War can be found there, many visible from the shore.
YpaNA TIL that in 1552 a man accidentally shot himself in the head with a longbow.
pPY8 TIL a man was arrested for not showing his I.D. to police when comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested for obscenity during a performance in L.A. They rode in the same cop car together. That man, was young George Carlin.