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TIL the Soviet Union successfully put out a gas well fire that was burning for 1074 days with a underground nuke

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9yMX TIL during the time of the devastating 2011 Joplin, MO tornado, a traveling circus was in town but couldn’t perform due to the weather. Instead, they enlisted the help of their circus elephants to remove damaged vehicles and heavy debris from the road to clear a path for first responders.
D1m0v TIL some people sneeze when they think dirty thoughts
DQGMP TIL the Liberty Bell and Big Ben were cast by the same bell foundry, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, and both bells are cracked.
grx8y TIL That the in the Celtic myth, "The Fosterage of the House of the Two Pails", Eithne (the Sidhe foster-daughter of the Tuatha De Danann, Aengus) converted to Christianity when meeting St. Patrick:
7rbbO TIL the 1990s AOL modem sound was a sequence that allowed digital devices to piggyback on an analog telephone network to use sound waves to carry data across phone lines