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TIL that Tim Allen spent 28 months in federal prison for trafficking cocaine.

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oQgL TIL at one point in the late sixties, a plane was hijacked and diverted to Cuba more than once a week.
9Vnm TIL that Germany’s racing color is silver because one of their cars was barely overweight, so they just scrapped the paint off leaving the silver body. The car won and the color stuck.
VMYjD TIL Canada and Denmark have a territorial dispute over Hans Island in which each country removes the others flag and leaves bottles of alcohol (whiskey from Canada and Schnapps from Denmark) every few months for the other countries military when they return to reclaim the island.
DG7g TIL Snoop Dogg has been nominated for 17 Grammys but has NEVER won
R7XZ8 TIL that the reason many Hanna Barbera characters had collars and ties was to save money on animation. Separating the head and body allows the body to remain static while the head is animated. This made it so a seven minute cartoon only required around 2,000 drawings, as opposed to the usual 14,000