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TIL of a now closed down amusement park that responsible for at least 6 peoples deaths. They even had to offer it’s own employees a hundred dollars to test out one of the waterslides.

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MEDK TIL that the Presidents of the United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1890s were called the ‘Forgettable Presidents’ because they were either impeached, assassinated, disgraced by their own party, surrounded by corruption, or possibly fraudulently elected
J1QpV TIL of the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel, a plan to plant continent-wide wall of trees stretching from Djibouti, Djibouti to Dakar, Senegal. The goal is to combat desertification in the Sahel region and hold back the Sahara desert.
Vy4D TIL scientists are working on plans to equip the International Space Station with a laser cannon to zap space debris in an effort to clean up the 3,000 tons of discarded satellites and other garbage in orbit
OokY TIL In 1899, President McKinley was assured by the director of the US Patent Office that everything that can be invented has already been invented.
b90np TIL of the Isla Bermeja. A Mexican island appearing on maps since 1535 which, in 1990, no longer existed. Not quite "it was gone", more "there was no proof it EVER existed.