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TIL Boeing built an entire fake town on top of their Seattle area factory during WW2

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v1mmD Today I learned head on train collisions were staged for entertainment in the early 1900’s.
J8Ll TIL the shortest correspondence in history was between novelist Victor Hugo and his publisher, after the publication of Les Miserables. Wishing to learn how sales were going, Hugo sent a telegram with only one character. “?”. As the book had already sold out, the publisher responded: “!”
GMR4 TIL long before trees overtook the land, Earth’s surface was covered by gigantic 24 feet tall and three feet wide mushrooms.
VMjZ4 TIL 25 British scientists working on a classified military project died under mysterious circumstances
BjVy TIL that in 1976 during filming of an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man, the crew discovered the mummified corpse of Elmer McCurdy, an Oklahoma outlaw being used used as fun-house prop