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TIL - Giant Iron Balls were rolled through Paris’ sewers to clear blockages.

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W7Dg9 TIL: The Times of London mistakenly prematurely published the obituary of BBC commentator Rex Alston, who was 84 at the time. A year later, he remarried, which the Times reported, making him the only person whose obituary was published before his wedding announcement.
x9Lg TIL Rick Astley once interrupted a Thanksgiving parade in order to perform his very own live Rickroll
XEDlj TIL that on December 28, 1973, after having worked for 16 hours a day without breaks for six weeks, the crew of the Skylab space station mutineed and shut off communications with ground control for a day
neMOd TIL that Brenda Song turned down Harvard University (at 15) to play London Tipton in ‘The Suite Life of Zack and Cody’
rxm4 TIL that Kim Jong-un’s great-grandfather was a Korean independence activist and a devout Christian missionary.