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TIL: There have been 60,000 attempts to get across the Berlin Wall. 5,000 people managed to escape through the Wall, with an estimated death toll of 136.

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16xkV TIL That Jack Kelly, father of Grace Kelly and self made millionaire was banned from the Henley Regatta under the pretext that he was not a gentleman. He went on to beat the Henley champion at the Olympics and sent the King of England a note saying simply "greetings from a bricklayer".
mxgJp TIL of Market Garden, a failed British operation during the Second World War which resulted in the loss of 16,000~ troops, 377 aircraft/gliders and 88 tanks.
kJOeg TIL After winning 11 Grand Slam titles, Bjorn Borg retired at the age of just 26 in 1982. His career included 5 consecutive Wimbledon titles. He attempted to come back to professional tennis 9 years later, but struggled to win even a single match.
Y7mOG TIL that the Seminole Tribe did not exist prior to the 1700s. It was formed in Spanish Florida by members of other tribes who were displaced out of the English colonies by settlers. Florida's original indigenous population was extinct by then from disease and enslavement brought by the Spanish.
bKw0 TIL an Oregon woman started a 50,000 acre wildfire who later told authorities that her “firefighter friends were bored and needed work.”