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TIL the EPA and former employees sued Area 51 for failure to comply with hazardous waste disposal laws. The case was thrown out on national security grounds.

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woknE TIL: Moray eel is the only known vertebrae to use its second set of jaws to both restrain and transport prey.
5YM99 TIL that some Ghanaians hire dancing pallbearers to carry the coffin during funerals
R7lg6 TIL Roman Emperor Commodus once round up citizens of Rome that were missing their feet through illness or accident and tethered them together for Commodus to club to death while pretending they were giants.
j6JKR TIL that the prestige in holding the Blue Riband for the highest average speed in crossing the Atlantic, was such that the British government gave the shipping firm Cunard a £2.5 million loan to help take the title back from Germany, which Cunard did.