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TIL the CNN world headquarters building used to house an indoor amusement park called The World of Sid and Marty Krofft

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LkKZm TIL that a newborn is triggered into its first breathe by contractions that reducing oxygen flow through the umbilical, which increases carbon dioxide. The increase of carbon dioxide causes acidosis which triggers the respiratory center of the brain, causing the baby to start using it's lungs.
e0nyL TIL that when somebody rings the doorbell on Fuller House, whoever is in the living room says "It's always open!", a reference to the Olsen twins, who have repeatedly rejected requests to appear on the show
kJGr5 TIL that the first nuclear reactor explosion happened in 1952 in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada. Nine years before the Argonne reactor and twenty-seven years before Three Mile Island. The second also occurred at Chalk River, in 1958.
DaLD TIL ‘Mortal Kombat’ was originally designed as a Jean-Claude van Damme fighting game. When he wasn’t able to commit his likeness, his character was changed by the designers to 'Johnny Cage’ and the MK franchise was born.
yQaDe TIL A theory put forward by Thomas Loren Friedman states that two countries with Mcdonald have never been to war with each other due to the economic punishment it would get if it went to war. It's called the Golden Arches theory.