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TIL in 1942 a British forest guard in India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons.

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XJd8 TIL Disney World has an abandoned water park next to their abandoned island
W7vBA TIL blues singer and early shock rock pioneer Screamin' Jay Hawkins was also a competitive boxer and actually held the title of Middleweight Champion of Alaska in 1949
knR5 TIL a butt-load is 120 gallons
9YaYG TIL that pathologist Jack Kevorkian publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide and because of this was often portrayed in the media with the name of "Dr. Death". He said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was convicted of murder in 1999.
1anvD TIL that just outside Albuquerque you can drive East on Route 66 and hit a rumble strip that plays "America The Beautiful" if you drive the speed limit, turning the wheels of your car into a phonograph