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TIL the hoover dam is expected to last 10,000 years
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TIL Moustapha Akkad produced the Halloween franchise. One of the few Syrians to reach international stardom as a producer and director in Hollywood. Akkad and his daughter, Rima, tragically died in the 2005 Amman bombings.
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TIL: Tim Martin, the owner of the Weatherspoons pub chain in the UK named it after his schoolteacher who said he would never amount to anything in business.
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TIL North Korea has enormous deposits of rare earth metals
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TIL that in 1953 the U.S and U.K. worked together to overthrow the Democratic Iranian government.
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TIL there was once a Viking king who ruled as the King of England...for about 5 weeks.