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TIL Route 66 State park in Missouri was once home to a promising town called Times Beach until a massive contamination wiped it off the map

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WkYPL TIL Warranty void stickers have no legal standing in the US thanks to the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act
R5mww TIL a declassified FBI memo revealed that Winston Churchill privately approached a U.S. Senator in 1947 to encourage him to convince President Truman to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on Moscow
VlgB TIL that Lenin wrote a letter stating that Stalin should be removed from his position as party secretary, but Stalin intercepted the letter and stayed in power.
4kZob TIL in 1994 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, former members of band The KLF, recorded a video of themselves burning £1 million. In 1995, the pair released a video of the burning titled "K Foundation Burn a Million Quid" and then promptly went on hiatus, returning in 2017.
ANbOx TIL about the Tunguska Event: In 1908, an 180 foot wide asteroid exploded while entering the Earth's atmosphere in Russia's East Siberian Taiga. It presumably exploded 4 miles above the surface, killing 3 people, and felled 80M trees over an area of 830 sq miles.