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TIL about the Love Canal Disaster, which lead to the creation of the EPA superfund

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5VDD TIL that the Indian military has decided to use the world’s hottest chili (ghost chili) as a weapon
Lkbjp TIL December 12th is Ding-A-Ling Day – a day to call friends and family that you haven’t spoken to in a while.
DQxop TIL the first Commonwealth solider lost in WWI (English Pvt. John Parr on Aug. 21, 1914) is buried in the same cemetery as the last soldier lost (Canadian Pvt. George Lawrence Price on Nov. 11, 1918).
Vaxp TIL On APOLLO mission 14, Alan Shepard smuggled in a custom made 6 iron golf club head which attached to a rock collector, and proceeded to hit 2 gold balls on the lunar surface.
Z8OLQ TIL that H G Wells’ War of the Worlds was inspired by how the immeasurably technologically superior English massacred the natives of Tasmania, Australia in taking that land.