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TIL the Manhattan Project was leaked 1500 times during WWII

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pld8 TIL On October 23, 1999, BASE jumper Jan Davis made a protest jump off El Capitan in Yosemite National Park to lift Yosemite’s BASE jumping ban. She died in the process. The ban remains intact.
XE07E TIL a South African political party formed in 2008 under the name "The National Party". This just happens to be the same name as the party famous for establishing Apartheid in South Africa. The party claims to have no relation to the original National Party of Apartheid.
epMon TIL there is a "gravity hole" in the Indian Ocean—where Earth's mass is reduced, causing weaker gravitational pull and lower-than-average sea levels. This anomaly likely formed when the Tethys Ocean disappeared between India and Central Asia and forced lower-density magma closer to the surface.
neV9d TIL: Pokémon Go players walked 8.7 billion km collectively in 2016 – enough to get to the end of the Solar System
oBNXA TIL: The last American President who was not a millionaire was Harry Truman in 1945