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TIL cleveland has an abandon subway system

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x6KMb TIL officially Vietnam does not have a paramount leader. Instead, power is shared with 4 people: the president, the prime minister, the chair of the National Assembly, and the general secretary of the Communist Party
bEpZ TIL Rage Against The Machine was told to censor their song, “Killing In The Name” when playing it live on the BBC. They started out censoring it, but towards the end of the song “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!” was repeated 5 times live before the BBC shut off the broadcast.
BrW8y TIL that when Steve-o was 13, his dad was a top executive at Nabisco and challenged Steve-o to do better than his corporate box seats at a Motley Crue concert. Steve-o managed to track down the band in Toronto and get backstage passes.
5P68 TIL in 1952 due to unsual weather patterns, a large amount of smog from nearby Coal plants collected over London for a series of 4 days, killing an estimated 12,000 people
oBRRA TIL the United States originally planned to build a canal through Nicaragua before taking over the French canal project in Panama