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TIL Kodak operated a secret nuclear reactor in the basement of their headquarters for 30 years.

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0wgYR TIL that the act of scaling defensive walls or ramparts with the aid of ladders, a prominent and dangerous siege warfare tactic in medieval times, is called "Escalade"
e0D8b TIL that during testing of The Legend of Zelda in 1986, the testers complained that the game was too confusing and that they kept getting lost. As a result of this, Shigeru Miyamoto decided to make the game even harder by starting off the player without a weapon.
rvVW TIL that scientists using high-resolution satellite images, drone photos, and ground surveys, have discovered a hidden monument in the center of Petra
j6yoE TIL 29 bars in NJ were caught serving things like rubbing alcohol + food coloring as scotch and dirty water as liquor
6E07m TIL Persian leader Cyrus the Great liberated the Jewish people from captivity in Babylon 538 BCE. Isaiah 45:1 of the Hebrew Bible even refers to him as a messiah and he is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called so.