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TIL someone secretly built a subway under Broadway, NYC
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Til a CIA intelligence officer working undercover in Uganda became a minor celebrity as the lead singer of a popular local band known as the "Kampala Jazz All-Stars"
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TIL about "Wa", a Japanese concept usually translated into English as "harmony". It implies a peaceful unity and conformity within a social group in which members prefer the continuation of a harmonious community over their personal interests. The kanji character "wa" is also a name for Japan.
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TIL around 1000 AD there was a Native American city with a population around 50,000, and that archeologists aren’t sure how it became a ghost town by 1300 AD.
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TIL why we use QWERTY keyboards. Mechanical typewriters would jam if people hit the keys too quickly, so they had to put the common letters far apart from each other and QWERTY was created to slow typists down.
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TIL: A Real-Life version of the House From The Simpsons was built Outside Vegas to be a prize in a contest.