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TIL that Nosebleed, a movie (starring Jackie Chan) about a window washer at the World Trade Centre who stops a terrorist attack, had to be cancelled when the attacks happened in the real world.

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DYre TIL that the Hawaiian language has only eight consonants: H, K, L, M, N, P, W, and ʻokina. Every consonant must be followed by a vowel.
L9Wv TIL due to an oversight by the Metropolitan Police, the BBC now own the trademark of the blue police box (the TARDIS) instead of the actual police force
VB7GG TIL That there was a Rudolph cartoon before there was even a song
GAwJ4 TIL the emperor penguin is a very powerful bird. In one case, a crew of six men, trying to capture a single male penguin for a zoo collection, were repeatedly tossed around and knocked over before all of the men had to collectively tackle the bird, which weighs about half as much as a man.
P1pbG TIL - Spanish archeologist Eliseo Gil Zubillaga in 2006 anounce the discovery of inscriptions on some pieces from the III-V century, in which you could see figures of daily life, a cross of Christ, mythological characters, hieroglyphics and texts in Latin, Greek and Basque wich resulted to be fake.