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TIL the Fast and Furious movie series is called Wild Speed in Japan. Some of the titles also include spoilers for major plot points as well.

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kOvK7 TIL that Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears.
78kaO TIL the first episode of X-Files spinoff "The Lone Gunmen" was about a US government plot to hijack an airliner and fly it into the World Trade Center to start a profit-making war. It was put on air on March 4, 2001.
lo5AV TIL reindeer meat is actually some of the healthiest meat out there. It contains way less fat than beef, and Norwegians are known to eat smoked reindeer, grilled reindeer, reindeer pizza and reindeer tartare
wLkPW TIL about sentences that people don't at first realize make no sense ("Escher sentences"): "More people have been to Russia than I have"
XErDX TIL of Harold Brown, who in 1978, plummeted 29 floors inside the San Francisco Transamerica building, shouting ""whoopee" all the way down. He survived the fall and was heard singing Camptown Races in the ambulance.