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TIL there is a diamond mine so large that it creates air currents that can suck a helicopter into it.

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VG8G TIL that due to a long controversy beginning around 2005, the Church of Scientology has been banned from editing any Wikipedia article relating to the group.
XRjE TIL U.S. nuclear testing in the Bikini Atoll dislocated natives to an island 1/6 its size. Each native gets $550/year as compensation.
6EjNQ TIL that the standard workday was reduced to 8 hours because of international protests held on May 1st, the original Labor Day. "May Day" is still celebrated in most places around the globe, by everyone from Communists to Catholics, with the exception of the United States.
0LeA TIL that the Chernobyl disaster would have been a lot worse if three engineers hadn’t volunteered to swim through radioactive water to open valves and drain the liquid to prevent a steam explosion
yQpOe TIL about Jack Horner, a paleontologist, who along with his research partner discovered a new dinosaur genus which they named Maiasaura. He was the technical advisor for all of the Jurassic Park films and is now working on the DinoChicken project in hopes to create a dinosaur using chicken DNA.