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TIL there’s a Bavarian themed town in the Blue Mountains of Georgia

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wRWY TIL NASA has a long standing tradition to wake up astronauts with a specially selected track of music each day, usually picked by friends or family members, called “Wake Up Calls”
epD8D TIL of the Town of Bingham Canyon, which was founded as a copper mining town in 1863, before being completely consumed by the copper mine as it grew. The Bingham Canyon Mine is now the largest man-made open pit mine in the world, and one of the deepest as well.
695jW TIL the Unicode standard officially supports the penis symbol as an Egyptian hieroglyph
OG1Ge TIL that during World War 2, the administrator of Tokyo, Shigeo Ōdachi, ordered that all "wild and dangerous animals" at the Ueno zoo in Tokyo be killed, claiming that bombs could hit the zoo and escaped animals would wreak havoc in the streets of Tokyo.
g8Rb TIL There is a waterfall in a park in New York which curtains an ‘eternal flame’ - a natural gas leak which visitors keep lit all year round