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Today I learned half of Canton, MA got bleach balooned

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bea TIL that on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the British lost 57,000 soldiers. For comparison, the US only lost 58,000 during the ENTIRE vietnam war.
dDxDj TIL a balcony collapsed in Berkey for 21st birthday party led to the deaths of 7 people, from Ireland or of Irish descent, with one dying 6.5 years later from a stroke related to the fall.
wLbVo TIL that Kenny Kramer was the inspiration for Cosmo Kramer in Seinfeld and actually did a lot of the things parodied in the show such as creating the reality tour around NY, demanding to play his own character and coming up with strange inventions.
yVAoJ TIL of the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia. It is known primarily for a cave that was the only inland site in Australia with evidence of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years, including through the last Ice Age. The cave was permanently destroyed by mining company Rio Tinto in May 2020
QNy09 TIL that the woman who sings the iconic "Give it to me baby!" from The Offspring song "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) went on to voice Asajj Ventress from Star Wars: The Clone Wars