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TIL that Loch Ness is so long, wide and deep that it could hold the entire population of the world 10 times over

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bMVQ TIL a 35 year-old gold miner, using only hand tools and dynamite, moved 5,800 tons of granite, building a half-mile tunnel to move his ore. He finished the project at age 67.
ky1B TIL that hot dogs are called hot dogs because they were rumored to be sausages containing dog meat, served hot. The government put an excise tax of $200 on every hot dog stand in response as a way of stifling the practice of selling them.
781QL TIL you cannot drive between Panama and Colombia due to the Darién Gap
0dyxM TIL in 1997 an Air Force pilot mysteriously crashed his A-10 Warthog in Colorado. The four 500 lb bombs his plane was carrying have never been found.
rRde4 TIL the nazi Sieg Heil was ridiculed by some people. Since "heil" is also the imperative of the German verb "heilen" ("to heal"), a common joke in Nazi Germany was to reply with "Is he sick?", "Am I a doctor?", or "You heal him!"