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TIL That there’s an amusement park in Vegas that lets you drive construction equipment in a giant sandbox

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WbKN TIL the tongue map that shows parts of the tongue responsible for different aspects of taste is the result of a mistranslation from a German paper and is not true
75nO TIL that “The Hound” is the same man responsible for the word “Yarp”. Actor Rory McCann played both Sandor “The Hound” Clegane in “Game of Thrones”, and Michael “Lurch” Armstrong the stock-boy/henchman in “Hot Fuzz”.
rNgx TIL that magic mushrooms can make you permanently more creative, curious, and inquisitive
VB5EB TIL of the Amend Project. A database of all proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America.
jNWVp TIL of Georgy Malenkov. Though he led the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, he eventually lost an internal power struggle with Khrushchev. He was demoted to be a manager of a hydroelectric plant in Kazakhstan and lived out the rest of his life in utter obscurity