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TiL about Bubbly Creek, a fork in the Chicago river still bubbling from meat packing plants dumping their waste in the early 20th century.

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mkDR TIL that there’s a Darth Vader Grotesque/Gargoyle at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC.
woErJ TIL Dean Mahomed opened the first Indian restaurant in England, was the first Indian to publish a book in English, and introduced shampoo baths to Europe.
aYbL TIL A Chicago couple won $30 million in the state lottery and didn’t tell anyone. Not even their kids.
Br06r TIL that it is impossible that a planet (On this case, planet Earth) can substain it's life if it's cut in half, exposing it's core to the vacuum of space. It would eventually do a lot of stuff, incluiding dissolving it's atmosphere and ending all life on it
AWXx TIL ‘Playboy’ once featured a short story about heterosexual men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. In response to angry letters Hefner wrote, “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”