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TIL that during production of the 2008 independent film Trucker, actress Michelle Monaghan earned her commercial driver's license and did the semi-trailer truck driving scenes herself.

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0m91 TIL Lincoln created the Thanksgiving Holiday in 1863 during the Civil War to keep the country together.
M7GKV TIL in 1997, Lottie Williams was walking in a park when she felt a tap on her shoulder. After turning around and seeing no one there, she found that a piece of mesh had fallen from the sky and tapped her. An analysis revealed the mesh was from a Delta II rocket on re-entry.
mx4pE TIL Nearly 3% of Antarctic ice in glaciers is penguin urine
oBV5L TIL Mount Everest is so inundated with waste, including 26,500 lbs of human excrement, each season that the Nepalese gov't now requires each climber to pack out 8 kg of waste when descending the mountain (human waste, empty cans/bottles, abandoned tents, etc.).
gLr7 TIL in 1809, a woman diagnosed with an ovarian tumor rode 60 miles on horseback to see a surgeon who was willing to extract it. It had never been done before out of fear it would kill the patient. After the 22.5 pound tumor was removed from her body without anesthesia, she lived another 32 years.