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TIL In 1897, three men tried to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen-filled balloon. The balloon crashed two days after lift-off and the men spent the next 3 months trying to walk back to civilization…only to be eaten by polar bears.

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jgdn TIL the makers of the ‘Airplane!’ and “Naked Gun” movies bought a horse just to make a joke. They named the horse All Pink and instructed the jockey not to win but to stay on the inside rail the whole race just to hear the play-by-play announcer say “Its All Pink on the inside”.
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