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TIL Military units break step when marching over bridges to avoid causing a resonate wave that could collapse the structure.

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yQ0Xw TIL John Mellencamp has dated and broken up with Meg Ryan twice, even going as far as getting engaged the second time.
BrLdW TIL that the music video of the song "Basket Case" from Green day was filmed in a mental asylum called "Agnews Developmental Center." It was also originally filmed in black and white but was later colored in(however the patients of the asylum were not colored in and stay B&W)
9YjlM TIL about 1 in 100,000,000 lobsters are "cotton-candy" blue.
m1gyv TIL William Horatio Bates developed a method of treating nearsightedness that involved using a lens to focus sunlight directly onto a patient's eyes
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