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TIL Tom hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln through Lincoln’s mother Nancy Hanks

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58PR TIL Lego has an underground vault, containing one copy of each Lego set ever made
gM8kA TIL an Alford Plea is a guilty plea from a defendant who claims innocence, but admits the evidence against them enough to prove guilt.
neQ0o Today I learned that when you eat pineapple and your tongue begins to hurt it is due to the fact that the pineapple is eating you back thanks to bromelain.
QJlN6 TIL that, in 1964, a group of college students used garden spades to tunnel under the Berlin Wall into East Berlin, allowing 57 people to escape to the West. The students moved enough dirt to fill four eighteen-wheeler big rigs; one of them went on to design tunnels professionally.
mxxmY TIL for the Athens premiere of Hercules, Disney released booklets declaring "This film is not a lesson in mythology."