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TIL that it was once proposed to bury nuclear waste at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, with the theory that tectonic plate subduction would eventually push it down into the Earth's mantle

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4V55 TIL a man in Sweden receives disability benefits due to his “addiction to Heavy Metal”.
XE5k8 TIL Height strips on convenience store doors were first used to help witnesses judge the height of a robber, but today they are used as psychological deterrents.
OobmY TIL that the colour orange was named after the fruit, not the other way around.
WbN4 TIL that the body of Leon Czolgosz, Assassin of President McKinley, was dissolved with acid after his execution
JYPg1 TIL in 1978 an undergrad student notified the chief structural engineer of Citicorp Center in Manhattan that the building would collapse in strong winds. Realizing the student was correct, the chief contacted NYPD and had a 10-block emergency plan drawn up while they quickly fixed the building.