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TIL of the Lake Peigneur Giant Sinkhole Disaster of 1980, in which a drilling platform accidentally struck the side of a salt mine, causing the mine to rapidly dissolve and as it swallowed the entire 3.5 billion gallons of water

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Wk40N TIL There is lava on Mars.
nWVN9 TIL During WW2, the Japanese Navy developed the "San Shiki" anti-aircraft shell. Weighing 3000lb and 18 inches wide, it was to be fired from Battleships and when exploded, created a 5m long flame burning at 3000 Celsius for enemy planes to fly through.
8arMX TIL there’s a cryptocurrency named Dogecoin with the face of a Shiba Inu as it’s logo. It was made as joke in 2013 but is now worth over $350 million in market value.
m1Jvv TIL that Premier League team Man City has had financial misconduct allegations from as early as 1904. In the first incident, 17 players were suspended.
nWnyB TIL of the 9th century poet al-Khubzârruzi "the rice-bread baker". He could nor read nor write, customers would come to his bakery to hear him recite his poems.