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TIL old NYC subway cars are dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to help build an artifical reef to serve as a habitat for marine life.

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BrjeD TIL the bands Three Dog Night name came from Aboriginal Australians. On cold nights they would sleep in a hole in the ground with a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs and, if the night were freezing, it was a "three dog night".
XkxE TIL the tallest building in the state of Wyoming is a 12-story college dorm
8eXjX TIL that the first vacuum cleaners were horse drawn. They were so big that It took 6 people, excluding the horse, in order to operate.
xVGa0 TIL that Domino's gave away almost 11,000 free pizzas by mistake because somebody stumbled upon a code for a promotion they scrapped
oME TIL a student designed the RECYCLING logo & got paid out a whopping $2500.