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TIL There’s An Expansive Salt Mine Under Lake Erie

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9w4jG TIL of the Tlatelolco massacre, a student protest that led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of people being injured, after the mexican government had snipers firing at the Mexican Armed Forces to make it appear the protest had turned violent and justify the massacre
v1owx TIL that the city of Doncaster has road gritters named “Gritsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney”, “David Plowie”, “Brad Grit”, “Gritney Spears”, and “Usain Salt”.
jrgE TIL a man drove 1.4 million miles on 2001 Dodge 3500 Cummins with nothing more than relatively minor repairs
1an8O TIL that Monty Python’s Flying Circus was commissioned by David Attenborough, who was Director of Programs at BBC in 1969.
7ry6x TIL Elizabeth Ruth Naomi Belville (1854 –1943), also known as the Greenwich Time Lady, was a businesswoman from London. She, her mother Maria Elizabeth, and her father John Henry, sold people the time.