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TIL That before semiconductor diodes and such were invented, mercury arc valves were used

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78rnL TIL Drug kingpin el chapo married his wife emma coronel on her 18th birthday. He was 50 at the time.
1vn7 TIL a 120-meter-deep, 17th-Century salt mine in Romania has been converted to the world’s largest salt mining museum and amusement park, complete with a Ferris wheel, an amphitheater, light shows on the rock walls and boat rides on a subterranean lake.
x4Y5 TIL DuPont has been poisoning the town of Parkersburg, WV for over 30 years and has been covering it up.
Wkjvo TIL the Swiss Federal Railways’ centralised lost and found service is still seeking the owner of a packet of gold bars worth CHF182k (since Oct '19). The most valuable misplaced object on their trains, however, remains a 1727 Stradivarius violin in 2012, estimated to be worth CHF2.6 million.
GdMG TIL Democrats used to be “red” (the color associated with socialism) and Republicans used to be “blue” (the color associated with the Union Army). It changed in the 1984 election because “Reagan”, “Republican” and “Red” all start with “Re”.