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TIL a billionaire in Pune in India cancelled all his meeting for the day when his driver of 30 years died. He also drove the driver’s body to crematorium in his limosine.

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d8xmd TIL of the Lake Peigneur disaster in which an oil drill in a lake accidentally struck a salt mine, causing the entire lake to drain into the mine taking barges and an entire island with it.
ANXM4 TIL that the senior executive vice president of Tencent, David Wallerstein, has a prog metal band in which he plays guitar and sings, and goes by the pseudonym DarWin.
d8yBB TIL of the "Miracle" at Missionary Ridge during the US Civil War, when Union soldiers, after completing an ordered assault, went on seemingly of their own volition to storm up and drive back an "impregnable" entrenched Confederate defense on a high ridge.
nebbW TIL that if we cloned a dinosaur and let him lose, he’d probably be too out of breath to chase us, due to differences in oxygen levels.
4Xp96 TIL that Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was filmed under the title Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Imagination so it avoided all the publicity and that's also where the Family Guy special got its name from.