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TIL An oil drilling operation at Lake Peigneur, Louisiana accidentally punctured a salt dome, creating a sinkhole that swallowed barges and caused the Delcambre Canal to flow backwards.

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pYEeb Today I learned that Mario, the beloved character from Nintendo's Mario franchise, was originally named Jumpman. Created by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1981 for the arcade game Donkey Kong, Mario later became the official name of the character in subsequent games.
yOkp TIL that the scene where Aragorn tosses Gimli during the Battle of Helm’s Deep in The Twin Towers film is a joke on the actual sport of “dwarf tossing”
xVaQ5 TIL that eyewitness misidentification is the greatest contributing factor to wrongful convictions proven by DNA testing, playing a role in more than 70% of convictions overturned through DNA testing nationwide.
wEVE TIL Otto Von Bismarck predicted the start of World war I with quote “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
1aR0d TIL that WW1 was referred to as "The war to end all wars." Since it's end 100 years ago to the day, there have been a total of at least 224 separate wars around the world. Resulting in a total of around 67,380,966 deaths.