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TIL that The Simpsons episode “Marge vs. the Monorail” was written by Conan O'Brien.

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EyX0 TIL a homeless man lived for three years in the spaces between the girders of a drawbridge, complete with working TV and Playstation, holding on to the beams every time the bridge raised and lowered to keep from falling.
vPP0R TIL that the Buddhist 8-fold path is actually the 9-fold path but the last path is a choice between 2 paths. Kalachakra, the belief that all of time exists within your body, and Samadhi the belief that multiple people can work together under one single solar mind. Buddha was absorbed by both.
xG7w TIL Pablo Escobar had four hippos which, left untended for decades, have been breeding and now there are around 50 wandering an area in northwestern Colombia.
VBQn0 TIL During the opening ceremony of Ottawa International Airport’s new terminal in 1959, a USAF F-104 Starfighter did a supersonic flypast. The resulting sonic boom shattered nearly all the glass in the airport and caused significant structural damage, delaying the opening for another year.
kOVV1 TIL in New Zealand you require neither licencing or training to captain a recreational boat.