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TIL in Ashgabat (capital of Turkmenistan), water, gas and electricity are free

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QNPy6 Til about Storegga landslides, series of submarine landslides in the Norwegian Sea that triggered massive tsunamis that hit the British isles between 2000 and 8000 years ago.
0dvLA TIL: Famine is not a natural disaster — it's primarily man-made.
GYkXG TIL the very first US episode of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares featured a restaurant owned by an actual mobster connected to the Bonanno crime family
Y78jx TIL that autism severity is linked to fetal brain growth patterns
xnx1 TIL that Stan Laurel (of the legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy) refused to ever perform publicly again after the death of his friend and partner Oliver Hardy in 1957.