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TIL the capital of Montserrat is Plymouth - a ghost town.

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E1xAV TIL the lion roar sound effects used in The Lion King are not actual lions, but voice actor Frank Welker growling and screaming into a metal trash can.
b1VN TIL of the Capitol Crawl, when over 100 handicapped people shed their wheelchairs & crutches and crawled up the stairs of Washington’s Capitol building, inconveniencing some senators and forcing them to adopt the ADA.
1RoP TIL that in 1924, chess player and Russian world champion Richard Réti played 29 blindfold chess games simultaneously, then forgot his briefcase at the event when he left.
kJAe5 TIL One kg of uranium is equivalent to 4500 metric tons of high grade coal. That means complete fission of 1 kg uranium can produce as much heat as can be produced by complete combustion of 4500 metric tons high grade coal.
ZpZMB TIL The Knights Templar is still a surviving order in Portugal