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TIL a teenager was once arrested by a policeman who scolded her for swearing on 911, even though the call made in the first place was for the teen’s dying father.

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MeL1K TIL the world's first scottish-zombie-christmas-musical was released in 2018
ep7dD TIL high-quality lenses made from rock-crystal were discovered among Viking artifacts. They are so well-made that they could have been used in a telescope. These lenses were crafted over a thousand years ago, long before the time of Galileo.
vP8B4 TIL the first global attempt to boycott a modern Olympics was in 1936 when they were being hosted in far right Nazi-controlled Germany. Anti-fascist people in Barcelona were set to host an alternative called "Olimpíada Popular" but it was cancelled due to a far right power grab in Spain at that time
Yp4pA TIL due to extreme lack of surface water, a unique project was constructed to reliably provide the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus with water. A 50 mile long pipeline passing under the sea transfers water covering demand for drinking and irrigation for the state at the northern part of Cyprus.
b6nQj TIL that James Barrie lost his 13-year-old brother in an accident as a kid. To comfort his mother, he started speaking and acting like his brother, and his mother always treated him as if he was his dead brother. Thus, Barrie later wrote a novel about a kid stuck in eternal childhood: "Peter Pan".