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TIL Punxsutawney Phil performs worse at predicting the weather by his shadow than he would by chance

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E1nXP TIL that in 1958, Canada set off one of the largest intentional non-nuclear explosions in history to remove a rock in the middle of a shipping lane. A tunnel half a mile long was dug out under the ocean and filled with 2.75 million pounds of explosive.
xJZ1 TIL when asked what happened to Carol Brady’s first husband, Florence Henderson would say “I killed him.”
BgN6b TIL that Aaliyah released her first LP at 15, titled "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number" ...written and produced by R. Kelly
n7Qo TIL that the longbow was such an effective medieval weapon that the Duke of Wellington wanted to use a corps of longbowmen at the Battle of Waterloo, in 1815
nJrd TIL babies born to mothers who used heroin while pregnant are given tinctures of opium to treat their withdrawal