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TIL A train driver tried to avoid hitting a cow, which ended up killing 600 people.

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xV99w TIL of an ancient city, Cahokia, which was settled circa 600 AD and by 1250 was bigger than London. The cultural heritage site is located 8 miles from the Gateway Arch, in Illinois. The city was made up of pyramids and large earthen mounds, and “Woodhenge,” which marked the soltices and equinoxes.
Mmb TIL 35% of the population is born without wisdom teeth, because we don’t need them anymore.
p8kgO TIL Grover Cleveland placed his first (illegitimate) child into an orphanage and had the baby's mother committed to an insane asylum in order to cover up the scandal.
Y7ZJW TIL there is such a thing as an antimatter factory- and one is currently active at CERN.
M7JO0 TIL Vesta Stoudt, an Illinois mom working in a WWII munitions plant, invented duct tape