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TIL about a shipping container that was filled with rubber duckies who got lost at sea in 1992. The bath toys are still washing ashore today at many different locations such as Australia, Scotland and even Alaska.

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o11r TIL Will Smith improvised all the lines in his monologue about his father on Fresh Prince. The emotional ending and the hug was not scripted and he thought the cameras had stopped rolling when he said “How come he don’t want me, man?” His dad had left him as a child.
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g8e9 TIL there were two versions of the Dennis the Menace comic, released at the same time, on different sides of the atlantic, by different authors, with no plagiarism involved.
R71nl TIL there are 177,147 ways to tie a necktie. Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, a mathematician in Stockholm concluded this number by trying each possible way.