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TIL Dennis Rodman broke his penis 3 different times.

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woV9E TIL that there have been four (4) different successive "Madison Square Garden" sports arenas in New York City, dating back to 1879; the current iteration of MSG (atop Penn Station) was built in 1968 and is several blocks away from Madison Square.
BdVe TIL that one of Switzerland’s main defense strategies is to demolish every main access into the country via roads, bridges, and railways. There is at least 3,000 locations currently prepared to blow at a moment’s notice in case of attack.
OoxQR TIL descendants of Pablo Escobar's 4 pet hippopotami, aka "cocaine hippos" are an invasive species "rewilding" parts of the ecosystem. The hippos' diet & body size let them replay a role of similar extinct species like the giant llama, making northern Colombia more like the late Pleistocene Epoch.
R50NQ TIL that the massive sound pollution of, say, pile-driving underwater to build bridges can be dramatically reduced with "air bubble curtains," to the point that fish which would have been killed by the shockwaves before are no longer affected
XE8Yj TIL: The landscape design where a grassy incline slopes downward to a retaining wall to contain livestock or as barrier that doesn't spoil the view, is called a Ha-Ha.