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TIL - The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world.

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kWEd TIL In 1914, British WWI soldier Thomas Hughes tossed a beer bottle with a letter to his wife into the English Channel. He was killed two days later. In 1999, a fisherman dredged up the bottle in the River Thames. Although Hughes’ wife had died in 1979, it was delivered to his 86-year old daughter.
rRvZ0 TIL the Beryozka or Berezka Dance Ensemble is a troupe of female dancers in Russia, wearing long gowns and move in very small steps on very low half-toe with the body held in a certain corresponding position, so the dancers appear as floating or moving on wheels.
dDaEK TIL That the 5:30 "Alley Fight" scene in They Live actually had 5:00 taken OUT of it!
xYr7 TIL that “tobogganing” is what you call when a penguin glides through their stomach
QJrme TIL Squirrels can confuse crime scenes by gnawing on bones