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TIL, when creating a forever stamp of the Statue of Liberty, the US Postal Service accidentally used a stock photo of the replica from Las Vegas's New York, New York, instead of a picture of the real one. When the mistake was discovered, they said they would have used that picture anyway.

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WmYA TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
A11o TIL “Run” is the word with the most different meanings. The verb-form alone has no fewer than 645 meanings and Peter Gilliver worked for more than nine months to work out all of them.
Oo76e TIL of Gunner, a stray Australian dog who, after being wounded in a WW2 air raid, could distinguish so accurately between the sounds of Allied and Japanese planes that he could give 20 mins warning before an air attack. He was taken in by the RAAF and given a role detecting air attacks on Darwin.
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