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TIL there is a 1200 acre lake that is super heated by a coal burning power plant, even in zero degree temperatures the water never dips below 50 degrees.

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DQaDg TIL the authorship of a 1724 book called A General History of the Pyrates containing biographies of contemporary pirates has remained unknown in spite of numerous attempts by historians to discover his identity.
BErD TIL of Sheriff Buford Pusser. This 6'6" tank of a human waged a one-man war on moonshining, prostitution, gambling, and other vices in MI, surviving 7 stabbings and 8 shootings. He also single-handedly took vengeance on ¾ of his wife’s killers before dying in a car crash.
4X5VN TIL: "Lunch atop a skyscraper" - one of Americas most iconic photos taken in 1932 was staged as part of photo-shoot to promote the opening of the Rockefeller centre in New York. This is just one of several photos featuring real steel workers taken as part of the same photo-shoot.
XPak TIL that a lot of that weird creepy music in horror movies is performed on one unique instrument called a waterphone
p8wkO TIL that the FBI found the bodies of the 1964 Freedom Summer murders with the help of a hitman who, along with an agent, beat and kidnapped a KKK member. The Klansman had a gun barrel shoved down his throat as the hitman “started cutting his dick off with a razor” until the location was revealed.