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TIL about the ‘Door to Hell’—a fiery crater in Turkmenistan that’s been burning for over 50 years.

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oaZr TIL a farm Carlisle, MA has a Smart Barn that lets the cows get milked by robots whenever they feel like it, and has an automatic back-scratcher as well!
O4k4 TIL An Islamic cleric permitted a jihadi to have anal sex in oder to widen his anus to fit a suicide bomb
6EW5Z TIL on October 6th, 1909, a new ambulance in Vancouver was sent out on it's first test drive and immediately hit and killed a pedestrian.
5y6Q TIL Don King served less than 4 years in prison for stomping a man to death and was later pardoned for the crime by the Governor of Ohio after receiving letters of support from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, and others.
nR4b TIL that the girl in the red coat from Schindler’s List was told by Spielberg to not watch the film until she was 18. She watched it at 11 and was traumatized. She watched it again at 18 and understood “Spielberg was right: I had to grow up to watch the film.”