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TIL Boring in Oregon twinned with Dull in Scotland, then added Bland in Australia to become the Trinity of Tedium

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1BD4 TIL that ExonMobil, Cheveron, and, BP were once part of Standard Oil, founded by John D. Rockefeller, before it was broken up by the US Supreme Court in 1911.
OonpR TIL that there are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than atoms on Earth. Any time you pick up a well-shuffled deck, you are almost certainly holding an arrangement of cards that has never before existed and might not exist again.
8a1Z TIL - The hotel which inspired Stephen King to write “The Shining” plays an r-rated version of the film on a continuous loop on Channel 42 in all its guest rooms.
ZpP0a TIL that in 1896 an outdated suspension bridge over the Niagara River was replaced by constructing an arch directly around and underneath it, without interrupting bridge traffic
BNGr TIL that this creature commonly called Waterbear can survive in outer space and vacuums. It’s resistant to extreme radiation, pressure, and temperatures. They can hibernate for a decade, and are found everywhere on earth from the Himalayas to the deep sea. No one has been able to classify them yet.