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TIL Corona never paid to be in Fast and the Furious but received an estimated $15 million in free advertising.

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9Y1j7 TIL Of the SS Richard Montgomery, a sunken WW2 cargo ship carrying the equivalent of 1500 tons of TNT. If it explodes, it will generate a 5 meter tsunami, destroying coastal Kent.
X0L9X TIL from the 1850s to 1914, the city of Dachau, Germany had an artist colony, attracting artists from across Europe, such as landscape painters and printmakers
EZ6x TIL that a Facebook poll in 2012 indicated that Beaker is the favorite Muppets character, beating Kermit, Miss Piggy and Animal.
4XvX5 TIL that Buddy Holly's wife found out about his death while watching TV and suffered a miscarriage the next day due to "psychological trauma"; his mother heard the news on the radio and collapsed. Soon after, authorities adopted a policy of notifying a victim's family before their name was released.
wLyxE TIL Mr. Rogers maintained a weight of exactly 143 pounds for decades by swimming and eating carefully, because kids who saw him on TV expected him to always be exactly the same weight... and because 1-4-3 are the number of letters in "I Love You"