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TIL that the Øresund Bridge, connecting Sweden with Denmark, ends overwater and continues underwater.

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aR6N TIL that in 1968, a group of students at McGill University publicly violated the law to publish a text providing critical information about sexual health. The resulting book, called The Birth Control Handbook, sold millions of copies.
ADEv7 TIL studies done by online stockbrokers where they analyse the results achieved by their clients found that the ones that did the best were those that had died (and the category that did second best had forgotten their log in details).
p0BA TIL the first men on the moon had to use a pen to ignite the lunar module engines and leave the lunar surface because the switch had broken off
4X89w TIL President Andrew Jackson taught his parrot to curse, and it had to be removed from the President’s funeral because it wouldn’t stop swearing
9wxw6 TIL that during the production of Superman(1978), Gene Hackman was reluctant to shave his moustache, only acquiescing when Richard Donner promised to do the same. After getting it shaved, Hackman went to Donner to fulfil his end of the bargain. Donner responded by tearing off his fake moustache.