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TIL Several freight cars of the Disneyland Railroad originally had no seats because Walt Disney wanted guests to feel like cattle being transported on a real cattle train

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EgnVx TIL in 1944 a group of German prisoners escaped a POW camp near Phoenix, Arizona by crawling through a 178ft (54m) tunnel. They planned to raft down a river to freedom, but got caught when it turned out to be a dry riverbed.
VMvGD TIL the size and number of holes in Swiss cheese, also known as "eyes", can be controlled by adjusting the number of hay particles in milk used to make cheese.
X0rk TIL an 18th Century pirate named Calico Jack stole a ship and ran off with another man’s wife, Anne Bonny, who dressed like a man to hide her gender. Among Jack’s crew was another woman dressed as a man, Mary Read. When captured and facing execution, both women were pregnant and were thus pardoned.
ANOmw TIL in 1997 the Tamil Tigers discovered the Sri Lankan government had ordered 32,000 mortar shells from Zimbabwe, and sent one of their vessels to the Mozambique port of Beira to steal the consignment by pretending to be Sri Lankan officials. The bombs were later used against government forces.
PYEoE TIL the musical Hamilton has over 20,000 words, and would take 4-6 hours to perform if songs were sung at traditional musical paces