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TIL that the pope has a summer/vacation home know as the Palace of Castel Gandolfo and it is technically an exclave of Vacation City.

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BvXL TIL Before Chernobyl, the Soviets had another massive nuclear disaster which contaminated over 20,000 square km. The area was turned into a preserve to cover up the accident. The CIA knew of the accident, but also covered it up in order to protect the fledgling US nuclear industry from hysteria.
Dle TIL Richard Hammond left his Porsche 911 in traffic, and ran 16 miles for his daughter’s fourth birthday
gMRxA TIL North Korea's largest export are giant statues
OM16 TIL that the pinky promise originally meant is the person doesn’t keep their promise their pinky finger would be chopped off.
OoEN1 TIL in 1826, a restaurant called Atwood & Bacon Oyster House opened in Boston in a building that was already more than 100 years old at the time. Today, it’s called Union Oyster House and is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US.