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TIL that the professional wrestler Kane is the Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee

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WkEao TIL that during WW1, explosions in France were heard in London. A team of miners worked in secret to dig tunnels under the German trenches during the war in order to plant and detonate mines. The detonations were so great, the sound was often heard in London, 140 miles away.
xVXk1 TIL the first officially recognized disease caused by an occupation was scrotal cancer in children chimney sweeps in 1775.
jN89j TIL the patron saint of horses and prisons, Hippolytus, was also one of the first antipopes.
XEyl8 TIL that "Nimh" in the movie "Secret of Nimh" stands for "National Institute of Mental Health" and is based on a book about the institute that did horrific studies on rats
wo0d6 TIL that Victor Miller who wrote the screenplay for the original 1980 horror movie Friday the 13th hasn't watched any of the sequels, because he was upset that the franchise producers made Jason into the killer instead of it being his mother like in the original.