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TIL that in 2004, police discovered a fully equipped movie theatre (with seats, a large movie screen, projection equipment, and a bar) in one of the caverns of the Catacombs of Paris, and the source of this theatre remains unknown.

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dDwnZ TIL Aral Sea is a place of dark tourism where several ghost towns and ship graveyard dot its former shorelines after it dried up. After reaching the former port of Moynaq in Uzbekistan, it takes a 4WD car several hours to reach remains of the sea
LrW9 TIL The little pink part in the inside corner of your eye is left over from when we had an inner eyelid.
60eQ TIL that plantation owners from South Carolina paid a higher price for slaves the came from Gambia and Sierra Leon because these blacks knew how to grow rice and could show their slavemasters the process.
D6XP TIL: The US Department of Defense pays the NFL for propaganda
e0mkn TIL that the world’s most venomous animal: a jellyfish, kills by microscopically punching through red-blood cells, releasing potassium and thus, a natural “lethal injection” occurs. Death can occur in as few as two minutes.