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TIL The smallest park in the world called Mill Ends Creek is a circle in a street 2 feet across located in Portland, Oregon.

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mxGbE TIL In 1831, a train suffered a boiler explosion when a fireman grew tired of listening to it whistle, and tried to stop the noise by placing a piece of lumber on the safety valve and sitting on it. The blocked valve caused the pressure within the boiler to exceed its capacity, and it exploded.
o807 TIL the 1998 movie Armageddon was shot and edited in only 16 weeks. A massive undertaking causing tremendous stress on everyone, especially the visual effects supervisor who had a nervous breakdown from how overwhelmed he was
MejPB TIL Clarence Birdseye, inventor of frozen foods, had previously worked as a hunter for the US government. Seeking to find a cure for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Birdseye was assigned to collect small animals and search them for the ticks which transmitted the disease. He found nearly 4,500 ticks.
b9m0j TIL dogs were first domesticated in southern China, and that all modern dog breeds are the descendants of ancient Chinese wolves.
Xnpj TIL Mister Rogers defended public television to the US Senate; his testimony helped convince the Congress to increase funding to PBS, rather than cut it in half, as President Nixon wanted