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TIL that in 1980, oil drillers in Lake Peigneur, Louisiana accidentally poked a 14-inch hole in an active underground salt mine, which drained the entire 2.5 billion gallon lake. Incredibly, there were no fatalities.

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awQMJ TIL that when Wilford Brimley played a elderly retired man that discovers the fountain of youth in the movie cocoon he was only 50 years old.
YWXB TIL that American speech is punctuated with “uh” & “um”, English speech with “er” & “erm”, Japanese with “ā”, “anō”, & “ēto”, German with “äh”, French with “euh”– basically, every language uses different sounds to interrupt themselves while their brain is working on forming thoughts into words.
JYWwQ TIL that after leaving NWA, founding member DJ Arabian Prince went on to work as a video game programmer and a visual effects artist for the original Power Rangers TV show.
M7VGb TIL Manuel Noriega was a real person, a former dictator who sued Activision over using him in the game Call of Duty Black Ops II without his knowing and as a villain. He lost the case.
7rAab TIL of Paul D. Hubbard (1871–1946) who was a deaf American football player who is credited with inventing the modern huddle. Hubbard was a quarterback on the Gallaudet football team and he started the huddle to prevent the opposing team from reading their sign language.