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TIL The deepest artificial point on the Earth, the Kola Borehole, has been abandoned since 2006 and only a small metal wield covers the 40,000 ft+ hole.

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5lGB TIL Every night after closing time, Disneyland releases over 200 feral cats into the park to help keep the rodent population under control.
kJvB5 TIL the 145m year old araucaria araucana (or monkey puzzle tree) has survived mass extinctions and ice ages, but is currently endangered
1aN68 TIL the patch on the back of your jeans with the brand is called a Jacron. They were originally made of genuine leather and created to stamp out (pun intended) counterfeit jeans in the late 1800s.
Yp4ov TIL during the Korean War, a cut-off Marine Division ordered a supply drop of mortars (code name: tootsie rolls) but were sent the chocolate candy by mistake. They melted the candy down to a putty and used it to repair piping on damaged tanks, which they then used to escape to safety
woXRJ TIL about death flights. Captives would be loaded into a plane, stripped, and pushed out over the ocean. These account for 1500-2000 of the 20k-30k estimated to have been disappeared by the Argentine military between 1976 and 1983 in the Argentine Dirty War.