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TIL the Big Bang theory was initially controversial and met with skepticism for seemingly supporting religious ideas that the universe has a beginning

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KOkG9 TIL that Seattle City Lights paid an annual payment of $5000 to British Columbia for the loss of over 5,000 acres of land due to the filling up of the Ross Dam Reservoir
loZQK TIL Electrons from an alkali earth metal can be dissolved in liquid ammonia, creating a shiny, gold liquid 'solvated electron' solution.
awgrJ TIL To promote “The Room”, Tommy Wiseau personally spent $5,000 a month on a highway billboard advert for 5 years. This is in spite of the fact that the film only played for 2 weeks in the summer of 2003. Wiseau kept promoting it for years after it closed.
m10VY TIL about Glacier Girl, a WWII P-38 fighter that had to make an emergency landing on the Greenland ice. The plane became buried under more than 200 feet of solid ice, but was recovered 50 years later and restored to flying condition.
KYgEE TIL that there is a phenomena called phantom vibration syndrome. It is the perception that one's mobile phone is vibrating/ringing even when it is not.