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TIL the USSR used a nuclear bomb to put out a gas well fire.

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YpZ7r [TIL] that Isaac Wright (Bran on GOT) had to leave university after only 8 weeks because of all the attention he got. People had his flat address and his email address. He was even assigned a campus police officer at one point. When his then girlfriend came to visit they hid in his room for a week.
69A98 TIL the name of the video game "Doom" (1993) comes from a quote said by Tom Cruise's character in the film "The Color of Money" (1987). The quote in question is "What you got in there? / In here? Doom.".
XE7rR TIL The pope cannot be an organ donor despite having a donor card, because his body belongs to the church.
VBJAQ TIL there are no Burger Kings in Australia thanks to a single restaurant already having the name so they chose Hungry Jack's instead
oaDr TIL that the three highest paid employees of the Department of Defense are Football coaches for the Military, Navy, and Air Force Academies, with one making $1.6mil in 2012.