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TIL a man excavated his entire basement using only RC trucks over a span of 7 years.

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6l5Q TIL that on August 5, 1981, following the PATCO workers’ refusal to return to work, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order
j6R5v TIL Challenger 2 tanks require two sets of tools, as the hull is built using imperial measurements and the turret is built to metric measurements.
wLE8J TIL that the mostly-improvised film "Waiting For Guffman" took only 29 days to shoot but over 18 months to edit. The long editing process was due to the fact that over 90 hours of footage was filmed, which needed to be whittled down to 86 minutes.
nYpB TIL Mozart sold more CD’s than Kanye, Beyonce and Drake in 2016.
rgVW TIL that the once-thought useless human appendix has evolved at least 29 times, and been lost a maximum of 12 times–but evolution keeps bringing it back, possibly due to it having an important role in immune function.