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TIL that the dress worn by Katrina at the end of Sleepy Hollow (1999) was just a white silk dress drawn on with magic marker to give it its black stripes.

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ZaBp TIL An Air Canada flight took a detour to find a stranded Australian yacht. The passengers of the Boeing 777 found the yacht only 25 minutes after the distress beacon was activated.
XDa8 TIL that the poor in Haiti have to resort to eating cookies made of dirt just to give themselves the feeling of being full.
ADgwd TIL that France won a war over China in 1885 resulting in the creation of French Indochina
Jvev TIL that in 1943, after a worldwide search, a mouldy cantaloupe in a Peoria, Illinois market was found to contain the best strain of penicillin for mass production
Z8pQQ TIL during the burning of Washington DC in the war of 1812, British commander Sir George Cockburn ordered his soldiers to destroy a newspaper printing house, and stated "Be sure that all the C's are destroyed, so that the rascals cannot any longer abuse my name."