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TIL Walt Disney World is the second largest purchaser of explosives in the United States, second only to U.S. military.

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e0ekk TIL that whale oil was used in transmission fluid in automobiles until the late 1970s.
KlZE TIL A Canadian genius that specialized in ballistics was designing a super cannon to cheaply shoot objects into orbit. Canada and the United States cancelled the joint project. While devastated that his dream would never be seen, he was approached by another financial backer: Saddam Hussein.
X0n8j TIL there's a declassified CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual
7Xjb TIL the famous ‘risky selfie girl’, Russian girl Xenia Ignatyeva, who used to take selfies on top of high buildings and in other dangerous places with her boyfriend, actually died doing this. In 2014, she fell off a roof and landed on a live cable and got electrocuted to death.
xVk6w TIL William McGonagall's poetry was so bad, he read it as part of a circus sideshow. He was eventually legally barred from performing because the audience would riot.