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TIL Edinburgh, Scotland was the first city in the world to have its own fire brigade

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gMKvW TIL that when legendary baseball player Yogi Berra died in 2015, the Associated Press obituary accidentally announced the death of Yogi Bear.
QNxNL TIL in 2022, over 99% of people who were reported missing in Australia were located within three month or less. New "long-term" missing persons are considered a rarity.
Nby8 TIL: Mountains on Titan, a moon of Saturn, must all be named after mountains in J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings
GvDG TIL the actor who played the dying Maurice Fisher in Inception, Pete Postlethwaite, was really dying of cancer. He died 5 months after the film’s release.
epKv6 TIL that the deepest scuba dive of all time was 1,090 feet, set by Ahmed Gabr in 2014. It took him nearly a decade to properly prepare for the dive. While the descent took only 15 minutes, the ascent back to the surface took over 13 hours.