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TIL in 1963, a Turkish man knocked down a wall in his basement, revealing a secret room which led to an underground tunnel that took him to the ancient city of Derinkuyu

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o40L TIL that when Ellery Schempp won the landmark case which banned prayer in public schools, his high school principal wrote letters of disrecommendation to every college he applied to. He was accepted to each one.
1aXJW TIL while in 1930 over 65% of Americans went to the cinema weekly, since about 1964 that number has been steadily below 10%.
J8AV TIL that the fastest 9-year-old today could have won bronze at the 100m sprint at the 1896 olympics.
b996j TIL that in 1981, a Maltese man unknowingly welded a butterfly bomb onto a pipe, which detonated when he used it as a mallet
kAJ7 TIL that rice thrown at weddings poses absolutely no danger to birds.