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TIL during WWII British spies posed as fake charity groups to hand out special monopoly games to allied prisoners of war. These games had compasses, maps, real money, and other useful tools for escaping.

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VMPAB TIL in the 1880s Lamar Thompson was so disgusted that saloons and brothels were tempting Americans into “vices” and hated the "sinful" behavior of fellow humans who engaged in sex, drinking and going out for “fun” that he invented the roller coaster to distract people from sinning.
4XVDb TIL that Mork And Mindy was one of the first sit-coms to use four cameras instead of three. Show-runner Garry Marshall added a fourth camera in order to capture Robin Williams' unpredictable and ''psychically active'' performance.
0wYYL TIL: In the Brazilian jungle is an unfinished elevated freeway over 120 feet high in places with some tunnels and viaducts --abandoned and connected to nothing.
QeXd TIL that it costs Russia about $200,000 a year to keep Lenin’s body preserved.
D1rjr TIL about The Tragically Hip, "the most Canadian band in the world". They have sold more albums in Canada than global bands like U2, and have had nine albums in the #1 spot on Canadian charts, but are virtually unknown outside of Canada.