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TIL the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous demanded whiskey during the last few days of his life.

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x6Vrk TIL of the "royal touch", a medieval practice wherein monarchs touched one of their subjects suffering from an illness, thereby supposedly curing them of said illness
Y77wW TIL when Kurt Angle won an Olympic Gold Medal in 1996, his opponent Abbas Jadidi tried raising his arm believing he'd won, leading Kurt to believe he lost. The referee then raised Kurt's hand, and Kurt got more emotional than otherwise cause he genuinely believed he'd lost.
N7Ke6 TIL in 2009 a UK and French nuclear ballistic submarines collided with each other as neither of them knew the other sub was nearby. They were submerged and running silent but were moving slowly enough that though the ships were damaged, there were no injuries nor radioactive releases.
W968 TIL a baby was raffled away in the Seattle world fair in 1909 and no one knows what happened to him.
b9v9Z TIL throughout its over 30 year run, Thomas & Friends has been narrated by celebrities such as Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Pierce Brosnan and Alec Baldwin.