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TIL Fraggle Rock was HBO’s first original series

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RYr6 TIL in 2012, a neon light was discovered behind a bathroom wall in a Los Angeles restaurant, which had been left on for 77 years, amounting to over $17,000 in electric bills
EeaW TIL Olympic medals used to be given for “Town Planning”
Eg6k0 TIL: The defunct bank Wachovia laundered $378.4 billion between 2004 - 2007 for the Mexican and Colombia Cartels. They had to forfeit $110mil and were only fined $50mil.
R99a TIL when Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing faced a naked schizophrenic woman rocking silently to and fro in a padded cell, he took off his own clothes and sat next to her, rocking to the same rhythm until she spoke for the first time in months.
d8BeE TIL that in 2029 a huge asteroid will come so close to the hitting the earth that it will be visible to the naked eye. This asteroid may still hit our planet in 2068.