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TIL there’s a 2 mile underground pipeline in Bruges to transfer beer from brewery to bottling plant.

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4kbB5 TIL a group led by a real estate agent and a luxury car dealer managed to break into an airport and stole €38,000,000 worth of diamonds being loaded onto a plane, without firing a single shot and without plane passengers knowing what happened.
VMpGm TIL Composer Danny Elfman was in a band called Oingo Boingo and he sang the song 'Weird Science' from the movie of the same name.
MerZK TIL David Bowie's performance of the song Heroes in West Berlin was considered a catalyst to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Upon his death in 2016, the German goverment thanked him for "helping to bring down the wall".
yVyXa TIL of ‘Project Pigeon’, a WW2 era US funded attempt to train pigeons to guide bombs to their targets. The pigeons were put inside of the bombs and acted as pilots, repeatedly pecking the target displayed through a lens to keep the bomb on course to the target.
MeKAa TIL that a Chef's hat traditionally has 100 folds. This is said to represent the number of different ways a chef knows how to cook eggs