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TIL that Underwater Hockey is a thing, has been since 1954, and is popular enough to have both Men's and Women's national championships.

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5YvgP TIL that for the 1973 Clint Eastwood western film 'High Plains Drifer' over 50 technicians and construction workers built an entire town—14 houses, a church, and a two-story hotel—in 18 days, using 150,000 feet of timber. Complete buildings, rather than facades, were built.
e0Ryn TIL That in the final year of Stephen Hawkings life his signature voice was actually running on a Raspberry Pi partially using code from the Super Nintendo emulator 'Higan'
yVVYp TIL in 1985, Austria got busted for spiking their wines with diethylene glycol, a minor ingredient in antifreeze
R5B8l TIL instruments found in King Tutankhamun's tomb were played on a BBC radio broadcast in 1939 after a silence of over 3000 years
xykB TIL the ‘Type A and Type B personalities’ were conceived from studies that sought to establish a link between proactive personalities and heart disease. Tobacco companies funded the studies & used them to suggest cigarettes only seemed to cause heart disease because smokers were such high achievers