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TIL that in 1983 a group of Aussie friends started a quest to drink a beer at every pub in Melbourne. 32 years and 476 pubs later they completed their quest…

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R5746 TIL that it was common for mistakes to be made during the production of parchment for manuscripts. Tears that developed during this process were often fixed with colorful stitching, and these stitches were sometimes incorporated into illustrations.
jMOj TIL President LBJ Owned an Amphibious Car, the Amphicar, and used it to scare guests by driving them into his lake screaming about brake failure
wLaWE TIL that there is a 2013 American independent, surrealist, psychological, horror film called "Escape From Tomorrow" that was largely filmed at Walk Disney World and Disneyland without permission from The Walt Disney Company
LZbp TIL that you could still play original Edison’s kinetoscope filmstrips on modern projectors, because the 35mm format remained the same.
5kA9 TIL Tom Marvolo Riddle’s name had to be translated into 68 languages, while still being an anagram for “I am Lord Voldemort”, or something of equal meaning.