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TIL In northwestern Turkey, there is a place called Burj Al Babas, a $200 million ghost town filled with abandoned castles

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Bggwe TIL that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald likely sunk due to the freak of nature event called "the three sisters" where three abnormally huge waves suddenly appear and completely wash away the boats. The same type of freak events occur in finance, quantum mechanics and liquid helium.
YbAW TIL Millennium Challenge was a major war game exercise conducted by the US military in 2002. The combatants were the US, referred to as “Blue”, and an unknown adversary know as “Red”. After Red’s commander defeated Blue Team using asymmetric warfare, the game was reset and rigged so Blue would win.
Lk6Jr TIL a man named Painless Parker created the Parker Dental Circus, a traveling medicine show with his dental chair on a horse-drawn wagon. He charged 50 cents for each extraction and promised that if it hurt, he would pay the patient $5.
GO1J TIL one hectare of land (2.471 acres) producing vegetables, fruit , and cereals, can feed up to 30 people. The same area, if used to produce meat, could feed between only 5-10.
BPPK TIL that Ketchup, both the word and sauce, originate from China