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TIL that in 1966, a beluga whale swam hundreds of kilometers up the Rhine River into Germany — and almost didn’t make it home.

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Lyp0 TIL in 1999, a man broke into George Harrison’s home, nearly killing George by stabbing him over 40 times. His reasoning was that he had been sent on a mission by God to kill George because he was as a sorcerer and a devil.
kJVJB TIL there is a massive abandoned underground command network throughout the former Yugoslavia. One of these was the NORAD equivalent.
wLpoJ TIL that CBS crime drama "Cold Case" takes place in the same fictional universe as the CSI franchise and "Without a Trace".
gMWkA TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
JWeB TIL Winston Churchill found so much enjoyment and relaxation in laying bricks he even joined and paid dues in the Bricklayer’s Union. He even inquired in a letter “is there is a rule regulating the number of bricks which a man may lay a day?…and what are the restrictions on overtime?”