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TIL the treadmill was created as a torture device.

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X0DE6 TIL Kane Hodder appeared in character as Jason Voorhees on the Arsenio Hall show in 1989 to promote "Jason Takes Manhattan", being interviewed as if Jason was a real killer. He remained silent throughout the interview.
jddM TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson danced Ballet, Jazz, Afro-Carribean, and Latin Ballroom style while attending Harvard. He also won a gold medal in Latin Ballroom style with the University of Texas dance team
VBlm8 TIL IBM delivered computers to Nazi Germany
eAB5 TIL after the closure of North American airspace on Sept. 11, 2001, a small Canadian town had its population nearly doubled when 7,000 passengers were forced to land. The small community provided food, clothing, and prescriptions free of charge to all of the stranded passengers.
j6ylp TIL, while much of the evidence and general consensus supports the Wright Brothers as “First in Flight” Alberto Santos-Dumont, Gustave Whitehead, and others have competing claims.