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TIL treadmills were used in Victorian times as punishments in prison

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D0nD TIL There’s a group of people around the world dedicated to purchasing and destroying every copy of Shaq Fu, the Shaquille O'Neal video game.
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0w6yj TIL Margo Robbie learned to hold her breath for 5 minutes for Suicide Squad.
gMN1A TIL that Panic At The Disco had an album planned to come after 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.' They had scrapped it to change directions with their sound and follow up with 'Pretty. Odd' instead. The songs were previously lost until found by the former bassist's father.
rRmVy TIL in 1921 a group of workers in a fertilizer factory stuck dynamite in a 4.5k lbs block of hardened ammonium nitrate to loosen it up. The resulting explosion killed 500 people, destroyed 80% of the surrounding homes and ripped the roofs off of buildings 15 miles away.