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TIL that a Nevada Family Owns Private Property Overlooking Area 51

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xVvB TIL that treasure worth $22 billion in gold, diamonds and jewels was found in secret vaults of an Indian temple.
groy8 TIL that due to a restaurant offering free sushi to anyone with Chinese characters for salmon in their name, hundreds of Taiwanese changed their names in a situation that was dubbed "salmon chaos". Some are now stuck with names like Salmon Dream or Dancing Salmon.
XEwdX TIL of Ernest Vincent Wright, a self published author whose 1939 book "Gadsby," contains 50,000 words, all without using the letter "E."
loxYN TIL Jim Carey: The mask, Ace Ventura, and Dumb & Dumber all came out in the same year (1994)
Z8LYo TIL Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui studied agricultural economics in the United States at Iowa State University (M.A., 1953) and Cornell University (Ph.D., 1968). He served as a professor of economics and contributed much to Taiwan’s agricultural development