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TIL that Primm in Fallout New Vegas is a real Nevada town, and there is a Buffalo Bill casino there that has an actual rollercoaster.

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l7NEB TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan. A retaliatory against North Korea for the murder of 2 UN command officers. With 813 armed infantry, 27 helicopters, B52 stratofortress, fighter planes, a carrier strike group, and a chainsaw. US forces successfully cut down a poplar tree and the mission was a success.
7roaM TIL many of the "Real Facts" printed inside Snapple bottle caps are outdated, incomplete, inaccurate or just plain false.
KOEKB TIL that, in addition to the Taj Mahal, there is the Jal Mahal, a huge, 300 year old compound sitting in the middle of the lake.
4XBeJ TIL: That "the fist of the sender," the personality of a morse code operator in WW2, could identify allies from enemies, their locations & troop movements, and more. The pace and style of their communication allowed expert operators to track them. This was the precursor to modern keystroke dynamics.
GYaYj TIL that there are more historic artefacts under the sea than in all of the world’s museums.