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TIL that Halle Berry went to Miss World Pageant in 1986 and placed in top 7, becoming the first African-American woman in the competition

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1aP8D TIL the Turkmenistan "Door to Hell" is a large crater in the Karakum desert, created by the collapse of a natural gas field. Engineers attempted to burn off the gas for the protection of local villagers, but instead, it has filled the cavern with flame for 50 years, with no end for the near future.
BODd TIL that 2015 is 11111011111 in binary, making this year a palindrome year. We won’t have another one of these until 2047.
69ARm TIL that during the state opening of parliament in 1845, the Duke of Argyll accidentally dropped the Imperial State Crown, causing £150 (23,000$ today) worth of damage. Of the accident, Queen Victoria wrote in her diary:" [The Crown] was all crushed and squashed, like a pudding that had set down."
4XZeX TIL: When 1930s workers found hidden marble bathtubs in the US Capitol, their origin was a mystery until a man "offered his account of using the tubs as a boy." They were put in before the Civil War for Senators staying at inns without plumbing. They were obsolete by the 1890s, forgotten by 1900.
LkeQZ TIL The band Alphaville ("Big in Japan", "Forever Young") is German.