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TIL that the Mount St. Helens eruption covered up a serial killer's double homicide.

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lonEr TIL in 1945, Barry Fitzgerald accidentally decapitated his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor while using it to practice his golf swing. The statute was particularly vulnerable because it was made of plaster and painted gold due to the shortage of metal during WWII.
p8OjG TIL that Robert Downey Jr. was paid $10M for only 8 minutes of screen time in ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’. He got paid over $1 million per minute he's in the movie.
e0Opb TIL that scientists and medical specialists in the field of infectious diseases had actually predicted the emergence of a pandemic such as we're facing today as far back as 2008
0ba1 TIL: there is a pub in Ireland that has been in operation for over 1000 years.
Rjda TIL that the UK has an underground aviation fuel pipeline dating back to WWII, allowing aviation fuel to be transported around the country without risking it on roads and railways