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TIL that Hey Arnold originally began as a short film called Arnold Escapes from Church, which was made in 1994. It was a part of a series of Nickelodeon animated shorts.

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NKMN TIL That during his last days, Hitler used a Berlin phone directory to determine how the battle was going. He would call a number. If it was answered in Russian he’d hang up. If it was answered in German, he’d ask what the person was seeing.
4Vp6 TIL in 1996, a Norwegian man became the first to cross Antarctica, 1,864 miles - coast to coast, alone and completely without support. In 2001, he completed the first solo crossing of the Arctic, from Siberia to Canada via the North Pole, in 82 days.
PYjQG TIL vanilla extract contains the same percentage of alcohol that vodka does
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LQ0od TIL Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott got his drill stuck on the moon during an experiment. When he reached a depth of 5.3 feet, lunar soil particles rode up the helix of the drill bit and halted its momentum, postponing his task. The drill chuck was later auctioned for almost $50,000 in 2016