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Wk1ld TIL in 1992 Toronto Blue Jays baseball player Joe Carter pulled an amazing prank on teammate Derek Bell by pretending to raffle off his car mid-game. He rode onto the field in it and the announcer read off a fake winning ticket
b9jE TIL that the Three Stooges were on Hitler’s personal death list.
R5New TIL the cast and crew on the film Titanic were drugged after eating clam chowder laced with PCP.
OoDlR TIL In 1979 there was an unidentified double-flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands off of Antartica detected by the Vela Hotel Satellite, suspected to be a nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel, but no one ever took credit for it.
VLwm TIL that Hitler, after a total war economy was instituted in 1943, had the women’s cosmetics industry gradually closed down rather than banned outright to avoid upsetting Eva Braun.