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TIL that there is a broom closet inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex labelled "Stargate Command" in reference to the fact that the bunker was the fictional setting of the TV show "Stargate SG-1."

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E1007 TIL the Aretha Franklin's documentary "Amazing Grace" was filmed in 1972 but not released until 46 years later in 2018, largely because the director forgot to use a clapperboard and the audio track could not be synced with the footage until recently
nWKj7 TIL that there's Oganesson, a radioactive, synthetic "noble gas" that's neither noble nor a gas. It's also the heaviest element to ever actually have been produced.
awOrZ TIL about the Battle for Castle Itter, where in the closing days of WWII a small group of Americans, French prisoners, a surrendered SS officer, and several Wehrmacht soldiers fortified an Austrian castle and held off a force of marauding SS soldiers.
QJy1X TIL that there is a security system designed in South Africa to protect against the abundance of carjackers. The security system is just an under mounted flamethrower that the driver can use to light potential thieves on fire. It is completely legal in South Africa.
oBKd7 TIL that there is a species of Tigerfish in the Congo River which eats crocodiles.