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TIL that a 10hour movie called "Paint Drying" was released in 2016 for the sole purpose of annoying the British Board of Film Classification.

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b6mga TIL Kissinger was sent on a secret trip to China in 1971, wearing fedora and sunglasses as disguise. Landing in Pakistan first, he feigned a stomach ache, saying he needed a few days to rest, which bought him enough time to fly into Beijing undetected
69MOw TIL there is a 14 story children's courthouse in Miami
ANQ5x TIL: Tequila in EU is protected designation of Mexico (United Mexican States)
Z1BY TIL After teaching a monkey the concept of money, he used it to pay for sex.
6llm TIL A 6ft 7in man named Peter Freuchen escaped from almost certain blizzardly death by fashioning a shiv out of his own feces and digging his way out of his snowy grave. He also amputated his own toes, wrote 12 books, and won the 64,000 dollar show (that’s much more now with inflation).