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Til there was a man who built a 40-Foot “Spite Fence” around his neighbor’s house.

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R7nJj TIL about Bhopal, the 33 yr old site of the worst industrial accident in history. Never being addressed, the site is still actively killing people to this day.
XAJ8 TIL Ben and Jerry’s has a real physical graveyard in Vermont for retired ice cream flavours
PRae TIL that a quarter of the US doesn’t have access to dependable broadband. They still use dial-up
womx8 TIL in the ‘60s, filmmaker Bob Clark, driving en route to a date, heard writer Jean Shepherd's childhood stories on a radio broadcast. After circling a block for an hour till the broadcast ended, Clark was inspired to create a movie based on Shepherd’s tales. The outcome? 1983’s "A Christmas Story."
yVkdl TIL that a penguin has achieved the rank of brigadier general in the Norwegian army.