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TIL Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” was recorded just two days before Redding died in a plane crash. The iconic whistling at the end of the track was the result of Redding forgetting the lyrics he had written for that part.

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91BM TIL the Troll A Platform, a natural gas platform in the middle of the Troll Gas Field off the coast of Norway, is the tallest and heaviest structure ever moved to another position, relative to the surface of the Earth, and is among the largest and most complex engineering projects in history.
pYeye TIL between 1913-1915 there were at least 7 instances of people using the Postal Service to mail their young children to relatives. The longest such postage was a 6 year old being mailed over 720 miles from Florida to Virginia.
R7yw9 TIL That Since 1950 Sedentary Jobs Have Increased By 83%
681Z TIL Andrew Carnegie spent $55 million of his own money to build 2,509 libraries around the English speaking world
7rvZp TIL that the most remote inhabited place on earth, the island of Tristan da Cunha, is 1250 miles from the next closest inhabited location. With no airstrip and out of civilian helicopter flying range, the fastest way to travel to it is a 6 day boat journey from South Africa.