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TIL the Han dynasty of China drilled for natural gas, transported it in pipelines and gas containers and burned it in stoves … in 200 BC

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8eQlX TIL that during Prince's Super Bowl halftime show volunteers accidentally ran over and severed three power cables during the stage set up, so a member of the lighting crew stripped the ends and held the cables in place by hand for the entire 12 minute show in the rain.
yVOVa TIL. Although the last letter of the English Alphabet is "Z", so far the last letter added to it was "J".
e0WNL TIL that the Sumerian God Enki was believed to have created the Tigris and Euphrates rivers by ejaculating into dry riverbeds
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1654d TIL The scene in Spider-Man (2002) where Peter Parker catches Mary Jane’s tray in the school cafeteria does not have any CGI. The whole thing was actually done by Tobey Maguire himself. It took him 156 takes to get it perfectly.