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TIL despite being 200 miles away from the ocean, a beluga whale skeleton was found in Charlotte, Vermont, USA and is the result of an ice sheet pushing down the North American continent.

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gr10X TIL when Pat Riley became the Head Coach of the Miami Heat in 1995, his contract didn't allow him to bring his own video coordinator which spared the job of the existing one. That video coordinator was Erik Spoelstra and in 2008 Spoelstra became Riley's successor as the head coach of the Heat.
XEDR6 TIL that a man walked into a bar and was never seen again. He was not recorded to have left the bar according to security cameras.
Z84EG TIL in 1996, David Bowie released the first downloadable song by a major artist (it took 11 minutes to download). He later launched an ISP (BowieNet) to compete with AOL. Subscribers to the dial-up service were offered exclusive content, as well as an email address and "uncensored" Internet access.
gMKwD TIL Gandalf store his smoking pipe in his staff!
Wrl8 TIL American coinage was made using definite measurements. 16 pennies stacked equals 1 inch and 16 pennies in a line equals 1 foot.