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TIL the Panama Canal is running out of water.

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ANbd TIL that the march ‘Here Comes the Bride’ is from an opera where the marriage is almost an immediate failure, and the piece is sung just before several wedding guests are murdered
rNkGo TIL in the original script to Rocky V, Rocky is so beaten from his fight with Tommy that he places his head on Adrian’s lap while on the way to the hospital and dies. Stallone apparently wept when he wrote that scene.
okwo TIL machine guns mounted on early propeller aircraft had to be timed to fire bullets through the spinning blades without hitting them
wL4MW TIL of Fukushi Masaichi, collector of tattoos taken from the dead. He had acquired these skins by working in a charity hospital, and by offering people money "to finish their tattoos on the condition he could harvest the tattoo when they died."
yA5J TIL that Simon the cat, a feline aboard Royal Navy Ship “The Amethyst” was awarded The Dickin Medal for gallantry under fire. The gallantry? He protected the ship’s food supplies from an infestation of rats.