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TIL More than a decade later, Techno Viking took the original uploader to court.

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d8Z4j TIL the historical inaccuracies in the movie U-571 caused so much controversy it ended up being condemned in British Parliament. Americans did not capture the Enigma machine. The code had been broken years before they entered the war.
40ww TIL 60% of Earth’s lakes are in Canada.
neNdb TIL that in 2015, Americans left 658 million vacation days unused. 222 million of those days were lost because they could not be rolled over, meaning Americans worked $61 billion dollars worth of time for free.
BbaD TIL that Pope John Paul II sent a letter to a US leader asking not to invade Iraq. When the Cardinal arrived he handed this letter to the President. He places this letter on a table without opening or reading it then told the cardinal that he, the president, “was convinced it was God’s will”.
nWaQB TIL that honey bees can change their mind and "un-sting" something if they haven't torn the stinger out yet