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TIL Silly walking like Mr Teabag is really good exercise.

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4XKRN TIL about how BBC once convinced people Spaghetti grew on trees. In 1957,BBC broadcast a 3min program about Switzerland farms growing Spaghetti trees. The farmers harvested them and put in the sun to dry them.The presenter explained Spaghetti always grows to the same length. People believed it.
wLEy6 TIL Al Capone was loaded on to a barge to Alcatraz island in the same carriage he was transported in from Atlanta. The whole train minus the engine was moved intact in fear there would be an attempt at escape.
yQvvM TIL that Ron Schur became obsessed with the salad dressing at The Galley Restaurant. He kept asking what was in it and every time he was told it was a secret. Finally, an annoyed waitress asked him, "If you want to know so badly, why don’t you buy the fucking place?" In 1989, he did.
kagd TIL Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas
jYDn TIL in 2010 the owner of Segway Inc. died after accidentally driving his Segway off a cliff.