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TIL an RTI(Right to Information) was filed by an Indian guy asking for India’s nuclear launch codes in India.

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jXdp TIL Helsinki is expanding below the surface. Incised into the city’s bedrock are a swimming pool, a shopping area, a church, and a hockey rink. Just to name a few facilities besides 40 miles of tunnels for heating and “parking caverns”. They plan to built 400 buildings until 2020.
yQAkw TIL that Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar and is the only woman to win DuPont company's Lavoisier Medal for outstanding technical achievement
BrGQD TIL: in 1966 alone, The Beatles each earned (in 2016 dollars) $15-24 million
lQK1 TIL Kenneth Pinyan died by a perforated colon caused by receving anal sex with a horse. A friend of Pinyan filmed it and a documentary was later made of his life and death
vPBn4 TIL: The flag flown on the Peace Tower in Canada's Parliament Hill is changed every day (cept holidays) and any resident can request to receive the flag that was taken down (for free) - current wait time is over 100 years