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TIL the paving rocks of the Champs Élisées come from Saudi Arabia

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Wk9kB TIL that Conan O'Brien met his wife Liza while shooting a remote piece on Late Night. At the 3:37 mark you can see a husband and wife meet for the first time.
o6E7 TIL most of present-day Boston actually sits on man-made landfill supported by underground wooden pilings
l7YNA TIL about Low-Background Steel, which is any steel made before the first nuclear explosion. It is used for very sensitive equipment like Geiger counter
0deb5 TIL that one of the first devices made to estimate electric voltage, the "Frog Galvanoscope" of the late 1700s, was named after its crude method of attaching electrical wires directly to the exposed nerve of a recently skinned frog leg, which would jerk suddenly in response to electric current.
J1avB TIL the New York Times, in 1944, Introduced Readers to an Exciting New Food: Pizza