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TIL that "Texas" is slang for "crazy" in Norway.

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RGZQ TIL of planet HD 189733b, where it constantly rains molten glass of over 1500°F horizontally in 6000kmph winds
b9QbE TIL that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima killed or injured over 90 percent of the doctors and 93 percent of the nurses in the city. On the day of the bombing, only one doctor, Terufumi Sasaki, remained on duty at the Red Cross Hospital.
deOK TIL Howard Hughes’ “The Conqueror” was filmed on a nuclear test site, causing 91 cast and crew members to develop cancer. This is thought to be responsible for the deaths of John Wayne, Susan Hayward, director Dick Powell and others. It would be Hughes’ last movie.
VBp08 TIL handling salmon in suspicious circumstances is technically illegal in the UK under the Salmon Act 1986
4mKN TIL that at the beginning of the song Roxane by The Police, during the intro, you can hear a strange piano chord, then Sting laughing. In fact, during the voice recording, Sting accidently sat on the piano just behind him. They decided to keep this on the final mix.