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TIL The concrete at the center of the Hoover Dam has yet to fully cure.

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gMDa8 TIL before becoming Coldplay's manager and a member of the group, Phil Harvey was studying classics at the University of Oxford.
xVOro TIL an off-duty Brazilian policeman in uniform had a cell phone in his back pocket when he visited his parents to do laundry. His parents were being held hostage by 2 robbers; when the policeman turned to flee, the robbers shot him in the buttock, but his Nokia Lumia 520 phone stopped the bullet.
5VWlQ TIL that Olive Oatman, a white girl kidnapped by Native Americans in 1851 and sold to the Mojave people as a slave, caused an uproar after returning to white society bare-breasted with blue tattoos across her face, which inspired the book "Life Among the Indians", an early American best seller.
kO1KB TIL that the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution allows the Vice-President, supported by a simple majority of the 15 other members of the US Cabinet, to remove the US President from office and assume the Presidency himself immediately.
EV4W TIL The guy who bought windows2000.com happened to be named Bob and Microsoft happened to own Bob.com. They came to an agreement to trade one for the other.