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TIL that when natural gas producers have a surplus, they can pump it into massive underground salt caverns for storage, some 6,000 feet underground.

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6RW8 TIL John Pemberton died a pennyless morphine addict after selling the rights to his alcohol-free morphine alternative, ‘Coca-Cola’, a formula he said “some day will be a national drink”.
oBn48 TIL that the band “Toad the Wet Sprocket” got their name from a joke band name in a 1980 Monty Python skit. Years later, Eric Idle was driving, heard a radio DJ announce the band’s name, and “nearly drove off the freeway.”
ADZWo TIL about the concave hollow earth theory, which claims that humans live on the inside surface of a hollow spherical world, with the universe on the inside. Hitler supposedly believed this, and pointed infrared cameras into the night sky in an attempt to spy on the British.
epx0k TIL a common trope of early vernacular Chinese novels was "(A) lone Tibetan monk with his potent aphrodisiacs and retractable penis"
OJxg TIL a slave named Gordon ran away from a Mississippi plantation and used onions to throw bloodhounds off his scent. He went on to become a Union soldier during the Civil War. His photo was used by abolitionists to cast light on the brutality of slavery.