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TIL of Picher, OK it was a lead mining town that became a superfund site.

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Y7vDB TIL in 1967 at the outbreak of the Six Day War the Suez Canal was shut down stranding fifteen ships, anchored together the crews formed a yachting club, held lifeboat races, and produced their own postage stamps — the ships would remain there until 1974
nepvB TIL Crows will sometimes actively hunt rabbits and have even been noted as chasing the bunnies off of fields and onto the road, where the rabbits are hit by cars and subsequently eaten by the birds!
8eLKK TIL That the screenplay for the James Bond film "You only live twice" was written by Roald Dahl
9YOPQ TIL that Mike Myers thought up the Austin Powers character while driving home one day. His radio was playing Burt Bacharach’s “The Look of Love”, and he was with his then-wife Robin Ruzan. Myers asked her if he was “making her horny”. She told him to stop it and write his new character down.
GADrQ TIL despite what Colonel Sanders says, the Medulla Oblongata has nothing to do with aggression, anger or jealously. Located in the brainstem, it controls vital autonomic functions like breathing, heart rate, vomiting and sneezing. The amygdala is responsible for anger