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TIL that every night, the US Constitution is lowered into a safe that is bomb proof

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7rJ4r TIL actress Anne Ramsey - better known as Mama Fratelli in "The Goonies" and Mrs. Lift in "Throw Momma From The Train" - had a famously unique speech slur left over after surgery from esophageal cancer in 1984. That cancer would later return in 1988, and was the ultimate cause of her passing
a8dXA TIL most receipts use toxic ink that gets absorbed through skin contact
G5Gj TIL American soldier Hugh Thompson stopped the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War by threatening to fire on his own men if they didn’t stop killing innocent Vietnamese civilians for no reason.
DbZr TIL no voter in India has to travel more than 2km to reach a polling station, even remote voters in the mountains or deep in the jungle
GAlRQ TIL the light we see from The Sun is technically more than 8 minutes old. Technically, because some stars are so far away and light only travels so fast, we are seeing light that is millions/billions of years old.