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TIL that there is such a thing as a two-story outhhouse

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xVMWg TIL, Evel Knievel, American stunt motorcyclist, spent 1/2 the years from between 1966 to 1973 in hospitals, in wheelchairs or on crutches and suffered 433 bone fractures by the end of 1975.
N7daE TIL that before the coup d'état in 1953 Mohammad Mosaddegh was regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran’s modern history, and that the coup partly took place because Iran nationalized its oil industry.
Wkpr8 TIL the first generation of stars in the Universe were all several thousand times more massive than the Sun and were made of hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of lithium. All the heavier chemical elements were formed within their cores. One of these stars was observed for the first time in 2015.
VMl8B TIL in 1996 a suburb of Provo Utah accidentally booked Rage Against The Machine and everyone lost their minds. Even though no incident came from it, the City Council enacted an outright ban on concerts.
rGVd TIL that 1835 was the last year that America was debt free.