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TIL that since citizens of Turkmenistan receive free gas from the government, many citizens just leave their stove burners running 24/7 to avoid paying unnecessarily for matches.

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vOQx TIL that in 1961 at Jackass Flats, Nevada, the United States successfully tested a nuclear aircraft engine that would hug the terrain at mach 3. During its flight to the target, the proposed unmanned bomber would have deafened, flattened, and irradiated our allies. The project was cancelled in 1964.
R7769 TIL rescuers had to cut a (dead) woman in half with a chainsaw in order to amputate the leg of a young boy trapped in rubble of the collapsed I-880 overpass following the 1989 SF earthquake
W7eGd TIL postwar Warsaw, Poland was rebuilt using 18th century paintings.
41bJ TIL that the Gobekli Tepe, which predates Stonehenge by over 6,000 years, is a large monument built in the middle of nowhere. It predates the invention of known tools, cities/communities, and the written word.
xVoK1 TIL that Buddhist monks are banned from reincarnating without government permission in China.