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TIL “Where the Wild Things Are” was originally going to be “Where the Wild Horses Are” until Maurice Sendak started working on it and discovered he couldn’t draw horses

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xV0jB TIL that in 1908 a meteorite hit Russia with hundreds of times more power than an atom bomb, destroying 500,000 acres of forest, knocking ppl over 40 miles away and causing weather events around the globe - but no one was killed and no impact crater was found.
9wlBD TIL it's illegal to sell whisky in Scotland that is less than 40% alcohol by volume (abv)
1kMr TIL Mile marker 420 was removed by officials in Colorado and replaced with a 419.99 sign because the 420 was stolen so often.
ADxln TIL that Berkeley's football stadium lies directly on a fault line and into a mountain, causing its walls to visibly separate due to tectonic shifts.
MeoWB TIL that for decades the CIA owned and ran Crypto, a Swiss company that supplied cryptography equipment to many countries; naturally, the machines were rigged to give US spooks access to everyone's communications.