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TIL: Ernest Hemingway hunted U Boats and Submarines on his fishing boat with grenades and machine guns.

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Brder TIL: During the filing of the movie "Titanic" 50 members of the film's cast and crew were rushed to hospital for suspected food poisoning. The actual cause of their ailment was discovered to be lobster chowder maliciously laced with PCP.
Ajxa TIL Dick Fosbury won the 1968 Olympic High Jump medal by using the hitherto unknown “flop” technique that he himself invented. It remains the most efficient high jumping technique to this day.
QBXk TIL Illegally smuggling toilets out of Canada and into the United States is an actual thing. Toilets in Canada are 3.5gal per flush and we’re made illegal by the EPA for water conservation.
LQgDm TIL the White House acknowledges 11 hauntings throughout the building including Thomas Jefferson playing the violin and President Tyler proposing to his wife.
1xoV TIL starting in the 1960s, the American Heart Association advised the public to eat less saturated fat and switch to vegetable oils for a “healthy heart.” The American Heart Association was founded in part by the makers of Crisco.