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TIL there is an underground landfill fire in St. Louis that is headed towards buried radioactive waste generated by the original U.S. atomic testings - All near residential neighborhoods.

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4k0rb TIL in 1973, illusionist Uri Geller, famous for spoon bending acts, tricked the CIA into believing he had psychic powers. During classified experiments at Stanford Research Institute, he replicated hidden drawings convincingly using stage magic.
b9RD0 TIL Rootbeer is popular in the US, bot not in Europe, because the substance (methyl salycilate) that gives root beer its distinct flavor, is widely used in European dentist mouthwash.
E1QJo TIL That in the Live Aid Queen performance, at 16:38 you can see a wave going to the back of the stadium from the people clapping. That wave is the speed of sound, caused by the people at the back hearing the music a split second before the people at the front.
kOD77 TIL about "Deafheads" who held balloons against their bodies in order to hear/feel the music at Grateful Dead concerts
lovKV TIL the Vienna Philharmonic did not accept women into the orchestra until 1997 when they granted full member status to a harpist who had been playing with the orchestra for 27 years