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TIL that Earth tilted 31.5 inches due to massive groundwater pumping.

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EMVP TIL Nails at one time were so expensive that people would burn down old barns just to recover their nails.
VB4b0 TIL Steven Spielberg offered Tom Sizemore a role in Saving Private Ryan (1998) under the condition that he would be given a drug test at the end of every day of filming, and if he failed even one time, all his scenes would be re-shot with someone else. He stayed clean and completed the movie.
7rxB7 TIL of the 19th amendment ratification flag, which was displayed 100 years ago this August 18th to commemorate the day women were given the right to vote. A star was added to the flag each time one of the required 36 states voted to ratify.
GY0ON TIL hip-hop artists Wu-Tang Clan recorded a single copy of a secret album, "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin". It was limited to a single copy sold for a reported $2 million.
5ym8 TIL that in Indiana, Motorcycles at a red stop light only have to stop for 120 seconds, and then they can treat the stop light as if it were a stop sign and proceed through the intersection cautiously. IC 9-21-3-7b-3(D)