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TIL The US built a gigantic concrete dome to cover up one of its nuclear test craters

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wo0O7 TIL the actor who played the medical examiner from NCIS wrote the hook sampled by Dr. Dre's The Next Episode
a8NnL TIL of a place called Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky
vP8QL TIL Sonic 2's story originally revolved around time travel. Emerald Hill Zone was supposed to be the “present” version, while Mystic Cave was the ruined present, Hill Top was the past variation, and the Chemical Plant was the future. This concept was used in a different manner for Sonic CD.
78aXL TIL a surprising number of cultures believe the "man in the moon" was a wood cutter banished there for a crime.
4krbb TIL in 1845 a suspension bridge crowded with children collapsed under their weight killing 79. They had gathered to watch a clown in a barrel being pulled by geese down the river.