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TIL that in Oklahoma there exists a ghost town so polluted from lead mining that leftover minerals have caused the rivers to turn red. Children who went swimming in the arsenic-filled water thought they were just getting sunburnt - in reality, they were being covered in chemical burns.

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P11jw TIL the office cubicle was created by designer Robert Propst for Herman Miller and released in 1968 under the name "Action Office II". It was meant to encourage spontaneous conversation and idea sharing.
89dX TIL Michelangelo’s sculpture of Mary carrying Jesus after the crucifixion was severely damaged by insane geologist, Laszlo Toth, who attacked it with a hammer, screaming “I AM JESUS CHRIST”. Meanwhile, onlookers took many of the pieces of marble that flew off.
M4DB TIL Leif Erikson, a Viking, and the first known European explorer of North America, called the large landmass south of Newfoundland as ‘Irland it Mikla’ or 'Greater Ireland’.
VKA8 [TIL] Today I learned that, after retiring from football and wrestling, Bronko Nagurski opened a gas station and retained customers by screwing on their gas caps so tight only he could unscrew them
BrbXL TIL: That a dead fish, if placed in the wake of an object in a stream of water, can "swim" upstream.