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TIL many American men’s dress shoes have a notch cut out of the heel, referred to as “The Gentleman’s Notch”.

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YpB8A TIL "The China Syndrome" film about a nuclear reactor meltdown was released just 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown catapulting the film into a blockbuster hit
vNxL TIL that there is a surviving fantasy novel written in the 2nd century AD in Roman Syria that features explorers flying to the moon, a first encounter with aliens, interplanetary war between imperialistic celestial kingdoms, and the discovery of a continent across the ocean
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