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TIL The Actors of Mad Men Smoke Herbal Cigarettes

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epyRL TIL In central China, villagers used to consume dinosaur fossils as traditional medicine, believing they were the bones of ancient flying dragons with special healing powers for various illnesses.
Yp9Rr TIL of the Great Attractor, a gravitational anomaly suggesting a concentration of mass thousands of times more massive than our entire galaxy. However, it is obscured by the Zone of Avoidance (the Milky Way’s galactic plane), making it very difficult to directly observe.
woKJY TIL that in 1994, a 17-year-old boy scout named David Hahn attempted to build a nuclear reactor in a backyard shed at his mother's house in Commerce Township, Michigan. The experiment emitted measurable radiation and the EPA eventually declared the property a Superfund cleanup site.
9oaB TIL that in January 1992, the banking system of Rhode Island suddenly collapsed, and hundreds of thousands of people lost access to their bank account for months, even years. Protesters were reported to smear excrement on the walls of the Rhode Island legislature in anger.
Y7mdv TIL that Point Nemo is the most remote place on Earth, with its coordinates being 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W, and it’s known as the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility; it’s located approximately 1,450 nautical miles from the nearest land