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TIL there is a Las Vegas, New Mexico AND that it was where most of the 1984 film Red Dawn was filmed

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NX6Ke TIL the original story of "Frankenstein" was written by an 18 year old runaway and mother, Mary Godwin ("Shelley" after marriage) when her pregnant stepsister's boyfriend, Lord Byron, created a contest for his friends to write the best ghost story after a cold summer night talking of gruesome things
91bp TIL the asparagus we eat is actually the young shoot of the asparagus plant, which can grow up to 5ft tall and bears poisonous berries.
5VVGD TIL The largest US industrial spill was in Kingston TN. 2008 with 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash equivalent of 1.1 billion US gallons was released into the surrounding environment.
EgDBd TIL an Atlanta police officer died in 2009 from atheroschlerotic coronary artery disease while having a threesome. A jury awarded $3 million to his widow, finding that his doctor was negligent in not properly diagnosing and treating his heart condition.
0wn41 TIL Nirvana considered making a video for All Apologies that featured Kurt Cobain playing Lee Harvey Oswald, singing to the camera and making a pie in the book depository. Cobain would then throw the pie out the window, which would hit Kennedy (played by Grohl or Novoselic) in the back of the head.