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TIL that Dr. Frasier Crane's accent is called "Transatlantic" and is neither truly American nor British.

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GY7GG TIL, that in 1917, British forces were not ready for a head on assault of Jerusalem, so British intelligence created a plan where cigarettes would be air dropped by recon planes for the Ottomans everyday up until the day of the assault, where they instead dosed all the cigarettes with opium.
JYWNl TIL that bills making North Dakota and South Dakota into states were signed on the same day, and President William Harrison deliberately shuffled the papers together so history would be forever unable to tell which legally came into being as a state the first.
9wvP6 TIL I learned that in 2012, in an attempt to reduce the number of people ending their lives by jumping off of South Korea's Mapo Bridge, the bridge was renamed The Bridge of Life and was decorated with life affirming messages. The amount of people jumping actually increased the following year.
nojB TIL of Bobbie the Wonder Dog, who walked from Indiana to Oregon to return to his family
JYjZ1 TIL that while Stan Lee was in the army he never missed a deadline for Timely Comics(Marvel in the 40s), when he discovered that mail was being withheld from him, he broke into the mailroom, unhinged the mailbox with the screwdriver, and submitted the assignment, which he was nearly jailed for.