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TIL ‘I’m sorry to have troubled you chaps’ were James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s last words to the EMTs tending to him during his heart attack.

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1a9AD TIL at the beginning of the 19/20 English Premier League football (soccer) season, a fan jokingly placed a £10 bet on infamous Manchester United attacker Jesse Lingard not scoring all season. He lost out on £670 when Lingard scored with his final touch in the final minute of the season’s final game.
PYwAZ TIL about United States v. Darby Lumber Co., a 1941 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal min. wage and labor laws. Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce, and can prevent states from using substandard labor practices to gain an economic advantage over other states.
J19Wk TIL that in 1960, three teenagers were brutally murdered while camping at Finland's Lake Bodom, and the case remains one of the country’s most infamous unsolved crimes.
oBPRR TIL: 90% of the Aral Sea, the 4th largest lake in the world evaporated and is now a desert, mainly due to the Soviet ambition of turning Central Asia into the largest cotton producer in the world.
KOV7G TIL about ATLAS-I, aka Trestle, the world's largest structure made entirely of wood, glue laminate, wooden bolts/nuts and sufficient to support a fully loaded B-52 bomber (for elevated EMP testing) 1,000 ft long, 125 ft (about 12 stories) tall, and constructed of 6.5 million board-feet of lumber.