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TIL Alexander Mackenzie was the first European to cross North America (north of Mexico)

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okeA TIL that from 1995-2001 one man cheated the McDonalds Monopoly game and walked away with $20 million.
6VWY TIL that on his 42nd birthday Douglas Adams was invited to play onstage with Pink Floyd
Zp0OQ TIL about the East German Balloon Escape, where 8 people successfully escaped East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon
w0o8 TIL in 1993, during a Friar’s Club roast of Whoopi Goldberg, her then-boyfriend Ted Danson appeared in ‘black-face’ and began telling racially charged jokes. Whoopi came to his defense because she infact wrote much of the material and even referred him to the makeup artist.
BQmr TIL The Censored Eleven, eleven Loony Toons cartoons witheld from syndication in 1968, were only shown past that as a special presention in a single theater in 2010 (Now available on Youtube)