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TIL that the Northern English town of Barrow-in-Furness once had the largest steelworks in the world

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nWeZW TIL "Qi" is the most commonly played word in Scrabble tournaments.
epEJE TIL the first commercial airplane crash that killed more than 100 people happened in 1956 over the Grand Canyon. A Douglas DC-7 hit a Lockheed Super Constellation and crashed into a ravine slope at over 480 mph, while the Lockheed disintegrated into a cliff. All 128 people on the planes died.
e0d96 TIL USPS Trucks are 30 years old
xkYw TIL Nintendo still sells the playing cards they sold when the company started a hundred years ago. They also sell Go boards!
xkko TIL The world is running low on Helium, which unless a new source is found, will be gone in 25-30 years.