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TIL actor Christopher Lee, known for playing Saruman, was a legitimate heir to the office of Holy Roman Emperor, through Frederick I

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j6KjE TIL wine from Mexico won the trophy for the world's best Cabernet. The 2013 Don Leo Gran Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon took the gold medal in the 2020 International Cabernet competition.
R5wX1 TIL in 1986, before fitness tracking was popular, Puma released a fitness tracking sneaker called the RS-Computer Shoe. It came with a disk, cable, a 46 page instruction manual, and cost $200. It did not sell well and people asked questions such as "Why would you want to know how far you run?"
566D TIL a 17 foot statue of Vladimir Lenin has been removed from a rooftop in NYC’s East Village, where it stood for 20 years. The statue had been positioned to face Wall Street, the emblem of capitalism.
ajW9 TIL that 80% of the close door buttons on elevators aren’t even hooked up.
yJO8 TIL while filming Dumb and Dumber, Jim Carrey stayed in the Stanley Hotel (where The Shining was filmed) for a night and requested to be in room 237. About three hours after he went to sleep, he came running out of the room and left the hotel. To this day, he hasn’t told anybody why.