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TIL In 1989 a naked man climbed a flagpole at a McDonald's in Anchorage, Alaska. He stretched his arms out and nosedived onto the pavement. There were no drugs in his system, and he has never been identified.

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R5Daw TIL that Lego's first animated TV show was titled "Edward and Friends" in 1987, created for the BBC2 network. Featuring Edward Elephant (of Lego's "Fabuland" theme), it used traditional stop-motion puppets instead of real Lego elements, and had a 5 minute runtime with only 26 episodes produced.
ne8p7 TIL the drug cartel under Pablo Escobar spent an estimated $2,500 a month on rubber bands needed to hold stacks of bills together and supplied 80% of the world's cocaine and smuggled 15 tons of cocaine into the US per day at the height of his power.
ne4Pr TIL that a Lord of the Rings-type world populated by multiple hominid populations once existed.
0wLrR TIL that there is a woman who can smell Parkinson's disease, according to her, people with Parkinson's have a slightly musky smell.
dk7d TIL about a man who has both anterograde and retrograde amnesia, meaning he cannot form new memories, nor can he recall old ones. Clive Wearing can only ever remember the past few moments of his life, though he still feels love for his wife and can still play music