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TIL Ringo Starr narrated the original Thomas the Tank Engine show
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TIL that the German word for “turkey” literally translates to “threatening chicken.” Porcupines are “spike pigs,” raccoons are “wash bears,” and platypuses are “beak animals.”
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TIL that over 1000 priceless books disappeared from a mountaintop abbey to the confusion of the monks and the local police, and despite reinforcing the library’s doors and changing its locks. Turned out the culprit was using a long-forgotten secret passageway found in the public archives.
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TIL USS Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers are 50 times more stealthy than any destroyer currently in service. Advanced stealth technology allows the 610-foot long warship to appear as a small fishing boat on radar.
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TIL that Zach Helm wrote Stranger Than Fiction and wrote and directed Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium - They are so similar
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TIL that the recorded cases of spontaneous human combustion (SHC) have these things in common: 1) the victims are chronic alcoholics; 2) they are usually elderly females 3) the body has not burned spontaneously, but some lighted substance has come into contact with it.