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TIL that the annual Exxon safety calendar featured the Exxon Valdez for the month of March in 1989. On March 24th, 1989, the Valdez ran aground - the most devastating environmental oil spill in history.

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gM1NX TIL there is a German man who was born in 1905 (when Germany was still ruled by Emperors), was 12 at the end of WWI, 40 at the end of WWII, 84 at the fall of the Berlin Wall, and is still alive at 113 years old.
E4Xd TIL There is a film that has been in development since 1981, that by 2004 had only 25 minutes of usable footage.
nv6r TIL the Spanish town of Júzcar was painted completely blue by Sony Pictures as a marketing campaign for the film “The Smurfs.” It’s still blue.
MelJW TIL that José Salvador Alvarenga, a Salvadoran fisherman was stranded at sea between 2012 and 2014. He survived mainly on a diet of raw fish, turtles, small birds, sharks and rainwater.
899X TIL that the doctor who treated U.S. president James A. Garfield after he was fatally wounded by an assassin’s bullet was named Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss, a doctor whose first name was actually “Doctor.”