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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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WEBd TIL Robert Ballard’s mission to find the Titanic, was actually a secret Cold War mission to find and investigate wrecked nuclear submarines Thresher and Scorpion. They finished earlier, so they spent the extra time looking for the Titanic and found it.
W79pB TIL that in Austria, public insurance requires scientific proof of effectiveness in order to reimburse medical treatments, but exceptions are made for homeopathy.
p877O TIL Paul Rudd tried to recreate the famous Basic Instinct scene while filming Ant-Man with Michael Douglas. The prank did not go as planned, as Michael Douglas looked over and said, 'What are you a f*cking pervert?"
VMPyB TIL: on tour in 1974 Frank Sinatra referred to Australian female journalists as buck & a half hookers, the resulting public outrage saw the unions black ban him. The tour resumed after future Prime Minister Bob Hawke brokered a deal over a bottle of brandy & Sinatra issued a "statement of regret"
4kpGb TIL: St. Louis was the 4th largest city in 1910 (8th largest as recently as 1950, and now 70th), Buffalo was the 10th largest (now 78th). Cleveland was the 6th largest in 1940 (now 54th), Detroit was the 4th largest (7th largest as recently as 1990, and now 27th).