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TIL a St Louis suburb contains a landfill - half of which is radioactive, and the other half has been on fire for 10+ years

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0wkmv TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman was once starstruck when he found jazz legend Miles Davis swimming in the pool where he was a lifeguard. Hoffman played it cool and pretended he didn't know who the mysterious man was and his indifference earned him an afternoon chat about everything except music.
EY6x TIL: Almost 25% of the population of Montana is on Oxycontin.
ag4M TIL the man who invented the first beer tap also invented the modern toilet
x6VQg TIL Cecil Jacobson, a fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients without informing them, was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology in 1992, “for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control.”
PYKVG TIL there are isolated tribes that violently reject contact with the outside world near India. They are some of the last people to be untouched by modern civilization.