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TIL The US had secretly buried nuclear waste in Greenland during the Cold War that neither the US nor Denmark wants to clean up now.

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b9jk0 TIL about the Italian town of Negrar and its coat of arms depicting a black man
Yp7OZ TIL of the world's 10 deadliest animals, 10 are Aussies
XDNX TIL That Lockheed Martin test pilots carry the wallets and car keys of the chief aircraft engineers as a sign of good faith.
nW68P TIL that the landmark pamphlet "Understanding AIDS" was the single largest mass mailing in American history. Spearheaded by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, it reached 107 million American households, and set standards for sex education regarding the disease. 80% of people read at least part of it.
KPNG TIL a US Marines airplane cut through a cable car wire at an Italian ski resort, which caused the cable car to plunge 80 meters (260 feet) to the ground, killing all 20 people onboard. One of the crewmen later destroyed incriminating evidence against himself and the rest of the crew.