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TIL there is a massive load of 52 gallon drums containing mustard gas and nerve agents at the bottom of the seas near Ireland and England

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LBKr TIL that in ancient Rome the punishment for parricide, killing one’s own parent(s), was to be whipped repeatedly and then sewn up in a leather sack along with a serpent, a dog, a rooster and a monkey. The sack was then thrown into a river.
xG1g TIL that in The Fairly OddParents, Timmy’s hat is pink because the show’s creator ran out of blue ink.
78oOP TIL: The (now disbanded) British Colour Council produced indexes of named colours for use by government, industry, academia, and horticulture... including colour B.C.C 20 – "N_gger Brown".
MerPa TIL Rock music was smuggled into Soviet Russia in the form of “Bone Music”: since there was no vinyl, records were pressed onto used X-Ray images.
kOa8g TIL: Southwest Airlines once slid off a runway in Burbank, California and into city streets. After the incident, Southwest was billed for the emergency services response. Southwest refused to pay, citing taxes paid to the city entitled them to use of the services.