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TIL Leonardo DiCaprio’s haircut from Titanic was outlawed by the Taliban

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neg99 TIL during the Cold War, the US built Camp Century, in Greenland - a supposed research facility under the Arctic ice that was actually part of a project to install nuclear missile sites. It was abandoned and environmental hazards including waste from its nuclear reactor are now under the ice.
KYVJB TIL that when Pedro Rodriguez won the 1967 South African Grand Prix, the organizers did not have the Mexican anthem, and instead played the Mexican hat dance.
eOp5 TIL dead batterys bounce
rNW9W TIL Edward Dando once ate 300 oysters with a loaf and a half of bread and butter in one sitting
5VoBQ TIL that in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the villainous weasels were to have an extra member of their gang, the creepy trenchcoat-wearing “Flasher Weasel”. Take a wild guess as to what he’d do and why he was cut.