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TIL that over 50 WWE wrestlers that competed in 1990s are now dead

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oBWM7 TIL That France had a king that only ruled for 5 days because that was his entire lifespan. He has the shortest reign of any French king and the only one to have become one upon birth
w8ME TIL On July 1, at the Battle of the Somme, a charge of 60,000 lbs. of explosives was detonated creating a crater that was 300 feet across and 90 feet deep. The explosion, which occurred in France, could be heard as far away as London and was the loudest man made sound in history at the time.
N7Z6Q TIL there’s only one hospital in the US that displays its prices in an easy to read and search through format.
Br15y TIL that print book sales are rising and ebook sales are falling
kj7d TIL Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to visit friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”