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TIL that every US Coast Guard cadet trains aboard a tall ship captured from Hitler’s navy.

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kLWE TIL In SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, the two German soldiers who were shot while surrendering durning the intro battle were actually speaking Czech. They were trying to explain that they were prisoners of war being forced to fight for the German army.
mavR TIL That CERN collects 30 petabytes of data (3 x 10^10Mb) every year from smashing protons together in the Large Hadron Collider
vrvK TIL there is a sound effect of a woman on a police radio that has been used in countless movies,tv shows, videos games etc and nobody knows where it originated from or who the woman is.
oRB8A TIL about the 1642 execution of George Spencer in Connecticut. He was accused of beastiality after a sow had birthed a deformed one eyed piglet.
oB4xR TIL the biggest reason Steve Burns left “Blues Clues” was because he was balding. He said “I refused to lose my hair on a kids TV show, and it was happening fast.”