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TIL That Dog the Bounty Hunter bailed Nicolas Cage out of jail in 2011.

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JYgrV TIL that BMW released an ad on April 1st 2015 saying that they would give away a brand new BMW in exchange for any old car. Suspecting it to be another April Fools prank, no one showed up except one woman. She came in with her 15 year old station wagon and walked off with a £25000 BMW.
6A5X TIL that ace Hungarian shooter Károly Takács shattered his right hand in an accident, started practicing with his left hand, won national championship only months later, and still later two Olympic golds
1aQOX TIL that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 originally had the Twin Towers in the game, but they were removed a week after the attack
MePN8 TIL of Alfred Holmes, one of Gibraltar's "Officers-in-Charge of the Apes." From 1913 to 1991, these soldiers cared for Gibraltar's macaque population. Holmes fed, nursed, and even trained them. Using eye signals and subtle head movements, he stopped the macaques from taking food offered by tourists.
DBor TIL the United States Air Force nearly detonated an atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961. The bomb was 260 times more powerful than the device which devasted Hiroshima in 1945.