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TIL That older washing machines have a heavy concrete block inside them to balance out the movements caused by the powerful rotating engine

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b6y7j TIL Alfred Nobel (creator of dynamite) is thought to have created the prize after an unflattering obituary naming him the “Merchant of Death.”
xVO71 TIL that in 1980 a drilling rig in Lake Peigneur drilled into a mine underneath the lake causing the lake to drain, a connecting canal to flow backward, the highest waterfall in LA, and 400-foot geysers. Eleven barges, the drilling rig, one tugboat, and 65 acres were destroyed.
lpZG TIL that due to name confusion, staff at Slovakia and Slovenia meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail
xV160 TIL When Elton John told his parents of his desire to become an entertainer, they tried to steer him towards a more conventional career, like banking. The flamboyant costumes he wore on stage early in his career were a way of ‘letting go’ after his restrictive childhood
kOoLg TIL New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, with 800 languages spoken