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TIl there is a roller coaster in Denmark called Hundeprutterutchebane (meaning Farting Dog Coaster) that is “known best for its name and its unique dog-flatulence-related theme.”

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mxo4M TIL that Kyrgyzstan is more distant from the ocean than any other nation. At a minimum of 1620 miles from any ocean, it is the most land-locked state in the world
788DX TIL In 1974 at a Canadian army training base in Quebec, cadets were being trained to handle discarded explosives. A cadet asked one of the instructors if he could pull the pin on the grenade, and the instructor told him it was safe. It exploded, killing 6 cadets and injuring 65 others.
JYEKQ TIL: Chemists Frank Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina were ridiculed by representatives of the aerosol and halocarbon industries for their hypothesis that CFCs would lead to depletion of the ozone layer. The chair of DuPont called it: "a science fiction tale...a load of rubbish...utter nonsense".
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Z8BDR TIL about the 300 Club, a group of people who have endured a temperature difference of 300°F. There's also the 200 Club - a temperature difference of 200°C