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TIL that Shia LaBeouf only became an actor to support his poor family

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kJWn5 TIL about Frazer Lockhart and the Rocky Flats Cleanup Team. Rocky Flats was a nuclear weapons production facility with enough radioactive waste to fill 90 miles of rail cars. Frazer Lockhart, a DoE employee cleaned it up $30 billion under budget and 60 years ahead of schedule.
4X6AN TIL that the skull the Russians used to prove Hitler's death is actually the skull of a women
bgGa TIL The government of “Free State, South Africa” spent $4 million on their website, it’s a $40 WordPress theme.
wKWY TIL there is a mushroom in Oregon that is the largest living organism in the world: it’s 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles (8.4 square km) and spread primarily underground
v1ANR TIL in the sea between Australia and New Zealand, there's an island taller than it is wide. Ball's Pyramid only measures 300m across, yet peaks at 562m in elevation.