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TIL Run is the English word with the most definitions

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5VmAr TIL the line on the side of ships called the plimsoll line is named after the MP Samuel Plimsoll
OokNe TIL of Chess boxing, a sport that combines chess and boxing in alternating rounds, popular in Germany, India, Russia and the UK.
wLmRJ TIL Inspector Todd from the Beverley Hills Cop movies was a real Detroit cop and was involved in state wide corruption which also implicated Detroit mayor Coleman Young as depicted in the movie White Boy Rick.
ZjVG TIL when the US Navy refused to cooperate during the filming of the movie Crimson Tide, filmmakers waited outside Pearl Harbor for a submarine to head to sea and chased it with a boat and helicopter to get the shot of it submerging.
vPwex TIL that Super Bowl XXVII was originally going to be in Tempe, Arizona. However, due to state blocking Martin Luther King day from being recognized, the NFL moved the game to the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, California instead.