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TIL the last time Germany did not make an appearance at the FIFA World Cup was 1950, when it was banned from entering.

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d8Gr9 TIL the captain of the Costa Concordia, a cruise liner which ran aground in Italy in 2012, killing 32 people, was jailed for an extra year because he abandoned the ship and his passengers rather than staying on board to assist in their rescue.
KERB TIL Roald Dahl was so disappointed with the original Willy Wonka film that he refused any more adaptations during his lifetime
Qj9L TIL 98% of pet exotic cats die within 2 years.
7rZ1x TIL a man in California bought a video camera so he could capture behind-the-scenes footage of Robert Patrick and Edward Furlong filming scenes for the Terminator 2 arcade game near his home. Instead he ended up capturing the beating of a motorist: Rodney King
JdO1 TIL, in the early 1900s engineers actually reversed the Chicago River’s flow. It still flows in the opposite direction.