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TIL 6% of the land in the US lower 48 states is worth more than all the rest of the 94% of the area

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5YNDP TIL the Soviet Union successfully put out a gas well fire that was burning for 1074 days with a underground nuke
788BO TIL in 1918 photographer Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged 21,000 soldiers at Camp Sherman in Ohio into a "living portrait" of President Woodrow Wilson. Mole & Thomas created many other living portraits of other famous figures in the years which followed at different military bases around the US.
8O6b TIL That the schizophrenia of one man is the root of jazz music, and without it, jazz may never have existed