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TIL about Project Iceworm, a proposed 52,000 square mile large nuclear missile complex. By the time of its evacuation, it’s total length was 1.9 miles, and contained a hospital, a shop, a theater and a church.

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KObEB TIL One of the most popular street sellers of the 1800s was the cats' meat man. He sold horse meat to feed cats. In the 1860s, there were 300,000 cats in London alone. To feed them, 26,000 horses (maimed or past work) were slaughtered each year. The seller cried "Meat, meat!" Cats ran to the street
4XRMw TIL that as of 2018 most of the early cryonics companies that froze dead bodies for future revival had gone out of business, and their stored corpses have been thawed and disposed of.
AnZl TIL there is a fish named Salema porgy when eaten causes severe hallucinations lasting up to 36 hours. It was a party drug during the Roman Empire
p8Jl4 TIL Germany has its own semi-equivalent of American "sovereign citizens", who consider themselves citizens of a surviving Nazi German government-in-exile, and as such not subject to the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.
QJVWX TIL of Medgar Evers, an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army and was assassinated in 1963 by a member of the "White Citizens' Council"