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TIL Cartoon Network actually managed to sneak an ad for themselves onto Nickelodeon

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BrX4k TIL in 1975 Ingo Bethke escaped from East Germany by floating on an air mattress across the Elbe. 8 years later his brother Holger fled East Berlin by firing an arrow with a rope tied to it and zip lining accross. The two then flew their brother Egbert over the wall on a homemade ultralight in 1989.
OGB7e TIL that the University of Michigan's prized Galileo manuscript turned out to be a clever forgery.
ey0b TIL an Air Canada flight in 1983 ran out of fuel mid-flight, but the crew managed to glide the 767 to nearby airport. The plane turned out to have only been filled with half the amount of fuel it needed due to a miscalculation because Canada was in the process of converting to the metric system.
ADk07 TIL every year, large parts of the North American western coastline turn milky white as millions of herring collectively spray thousands of gallons of semen over their spawning grounds to take part in one of the largest mass-fertilizations of the animal kingdom.
N9Qe TIL the three wise monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) are sometimes portrayed with a fourth ‘do no evil’ monkey with his hands covering his genitals.