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TIL the U.S.A. installed nuclear powered undersea data cable taps to spy on the Soviet Union

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m6Ly TIL California’s largest body of water, the Salton Sea, was created by an engineering mistake. Irrigation canals were dug from the Colorado river to the Salton sink. When the river flooded a dyke was breached and the entire Colorado river poured into the sink making the sea.
OZnR TIL in 2008, users of 7chan.org hacked into the website of Epilepsy Foundation of America and replaced the support forum with flashing images and animations.
b6lQ0 TIL when Brits say they are getting "a curry", it just refers to any dish originally from India (or surrounding countries), and is not necessarily food spiced with curry.
Z8a4R TIL: There is a fully intact Roman wine bottle sitting in Germany from the year 350 AD. It's fully drinkable but the Romans added a significant amount of thick olive oil as a preservative.
5YpGR TIL In the 1890s, electric bicycles were documented within various U.S. patents. However, in 1992 hardly any commercial electric bicycles were available and the terms E-Bike, power bike, pedelec, assisted bicycle, and power-assisted bicycle only became popular by 2001