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TIL the Hoover Dam was completed 2 years ahead of schedule

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nWPOY TIL that in December 1984 an engineer named Stanley Watras set off radiation alarms at the under construction Limerick Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania, despite the fact no nuclear fuel was yet onsite.
PYojZ TIL that the oldest known domesticated dog remains are over 14,000 years old. The dog died young and is unlikely to have been much use to humans. Nevertheless, it was buried in an elaborate grave alongside two humans.
D1ENY TIL that while the dwarf planet beyond Pluto is officially named Eris, and its moon is Dysnomia, they are unofficially called Xena and Gabrielle.
woDgE TIL that the Indian subcontinent used to be the largest economy of any region in the world between the 1st and 18th centuries
JMEm TIL Hugh Hefner’s daughter is more than double the age of his fiance