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TIL someone secretly built a subway under Broadway, NYC

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xP17 TIL E.T. was originally planned as a horror movie - featuring aliens who can kill “by the touch of a long, bony finger”
abDZ TIL Giant Rats have been trained to sniff out 14000 landmines and other unexploded arsenal. The rats, which undergo nine months of training, are light enough to not trigger the explosives. They literally work for peanuts!
69ggQ TIL more than 100 million trees are destroyed every year for junk mail
gQoD TIL there is a super rare blood type called RH Null that only around 10-40 people in the world have.
XgZ8 TIL in 2009 a Man Who Was an Expert on How to Avoid Being Kidnapped in Mexico Was Kidnapped in Mexico After Giving a Lecture On “How To Not Be Kidnapped in Mexico”