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TIL in 2006 a Romanian man, Florin Fodor, was charged for trying to illegally immigrate to Canada multiple times. He was first deported from Canada in 2000, and then in 2006 he attempted to enter again by sailing from Greenland to Nunavut in a 20 foot fiberglass boat.

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X06Bk TIL that the word "Dreamt" and its variations, such as "Undreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends with the letters "mt."
NxO6 TIL that research shows you’re more likely to have a creative epiphany when you’re doing something monotonous, like fishing, exercising, or showering.
16ODX TIL that in 1993, an Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train derailed on CSX Transportation's Big Bayou Canot Bridge in Alabama. 47 people were killed and 103 others were injured. Such a rail disaster had not occurred in the U.S. since the 1958 Newark Bayou rail accident, in which 48 people died.
e04r6 TIL in one of Charles XII's (King of Sweden) drunken escapades he forced a bear to drink so much wine that it fell out of the palace window and died. After this incident Charles vowed to quit drinking which he adhered to, with a few small exceptions, for the rest of his life.
VBdZG TIL The Architect who designed the Twin Towers also worked with the Binladin Group on Saudi Arabia's Dhahran International Airport 10 years prior