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TIL the French secret service planted mines on a Greenpeace ship, sinking it and killing one person.

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4BVo TIL that Weird Al Yankovic always asks permission to do a parody from the original artist, even though, under the Fair Use Act, he is not legally required to do so.
K11J TIL of Jean Hilliard, a woman found frozen solid 1980, who survived and made a full recovery.
rNeAy TIL Airport noise complaints come from a small group of mostly the same individuals (page 53 of linked document)
xAr5 TIL that the longest highway in the world is Highway 1 in Australia. Measuring at a length of approximately 14,500 km, (9,000 mi) it circumnavigates the entire country.
a84VJ TIL an oil platform called Piper Alpha, located in the North Sea about 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland, exploded and sank on 6 July 1988, killing 165 of the men on board.