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TIL The Creator of Sea-Monkeys was a Nazi

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8eAEG TIL There is a maze of tunnels under Las Vegas and people live in them
ANkOB TIL singer songwriter Leonard Cohen claimed to have written approximately 150 draft verses of his most famous song "Hallelujah", a claim substantiated by his notebooks containing manifold revisions and additions, and by contemporary interviews.
krE5 TIL that President Adams said “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”
4XGEw TIL that some birds form crèches, a "daycare system" where baby birds separate from their parents and form a group supervised by a few adults, allowing their parents to go forage for food.
N7jX1 TIL Huygens, an ESA spacecraft, was launched from Earth on October 15, 1997 to land successfully on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. That's 1.2 billion kilometers. Its six instruments gathered atmospheric data and continued sending it 90min after touchdown.