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TIL every May in Hamburg tugboats perform choreographed tugboat ballet to the tunes of waltz

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lOK7 TIL that in 2003 the Russian government sent a special forces death squad to kill a human rights activist in retaliation for her filing a complaint in the European Court of Human Rights
Dvae TIL that the movie Titanic is 34 minutes longer than the length of the actual sinking.
J1Jkl TIL the Harvard professor on administrative leave over falsified research data, Francesca Gino, published a book with the subtitle, "Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and In Life"
VvBZ TIL Famous aviator Charles Lindbergh served in WWII as a fighter pilot, despite still being a civilian. His wingman was known as “Fishkiller Miller” after he missed a target and accidentally killed thousands of nearby fish instead.
p8pyQ TIL that the Boston Tea Party was caused by the British giving the East India Company tax breaks which allowed the company to undercut the price of smuggled tea in the colonies. This threatened the commercial interests of Boston’s wealthy smugglers, such as John Hancock, who fomented the revolt