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TIL that during WWII 15% of the steel production in the US--180 tons an hour--went across the Hot Metal Bridge in Pittsburgh--as molten steel in huge crucibles built into special rail cars.

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W7XXA TIL New Mexico was named 223 years before the naming of Mexico in 1821.
rNnX4 TIL: Canyons are the OG 'desire paths' for water
ADOoB TIL of "Nintendocore", a musical genre that combines elements of video game theme music and sound effects to modern punk rock or metal.
v1R1r TIL that Dame Jocelyn Bell, a female astrophysicist who detected the first radio pulsar, acknowledged as one of the greatest astronomical discoveries of the 20th century, was overlooked for a Nobel Prize in 1974 and was named one of the Women of the Year in 2015.