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TIL there's a man-made borehole that drains 100 million gallons of polluted coal mine runoff every day into the Lackawanna River and Chesapeake Bay.

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oRODo TIL that the youngest person to summit Mount Everest was just 13 years old while the oldest person to summit was 80 years old.
1aQWr TIL that it was once estimated that Vanna White averages over 600 claps per episode of "Wheel of Fortune."
vPvmB TIL Barry Manilow thought "Last Christmas" by Wham! was so similar to his 1978 hit "Can't Smile Without You" that he took George Michael to court. But the case was thrown out after a musicologist presented 60-odd songs from the past century that had a comparable chord sequence and melody.
7rZRb TIL: When foxes discovered fairy penguins on a small Australian island, they nearly wiped the colony out. Swampy Marsh, a chicken farmer, began sending Maremma dogs to protect the birds. Over the next 10 years not a single penguin was killed by a fox.
p81Z TIL Joseph Stalin was a huge fan of American western movies, and would often ring up his underlings at all hours of the night to make them come and watch cowboy movies with him.