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TIL someone secretly built a subway under Broadway, NYC

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DlkD TIL the creator of MyPillow was a heavy crack user and his dealers once denied him sales cause he had been up for 14 straight days
4W1o TIL that wolverines are being trained to find and rescue avalanche survivors, because they are naturally inclined to sniff out animals 20 feet below the snow and eat them.
YpwBv TIL there is enough gold to cover the entire Earth by 13 inches. However, most of the gold is in Earth's core.
rnNo TIL that former USSR Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov prevented a nuclear holocaust and potentially WWIII by going with his “gut feeling” and believing that the USSR’s early-warning satellite signal was faulty when it reported that the US had launched 5 ballistic missiles at them
WkxrL TIL the Japanese high-speed rail system has a network of seismometers that will stop their bullet trains in the event of an earthquake. This system was activated just 12 seconds before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and as a result, only one bullet train on its test run derailed that day.