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TIL That the first drilling rig to find gas in the UK North Sea, also collapsed 2 months later killing 13 people, making it the first accident in the North Sea, and was the worst accident until Piper Alpha.

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p8YRA TIL on August 21, 1986 Lake Nyos suffocated more 1,700 people after a sudden release of carbon dioxide.
vPVD TIL that, when playing fetch, dogs constantly change their speed and direction to keep the object they are fetching in a constant spot in their retina.
p8QaZ TIL Americans don't buy personalised cars like Japanese and Europeans
VMGBB TIL Despite being an atheist, the famed mathematician Paul Erdős often referred to a celestial book "The Book" that contains every one of God’s perfect mathematical proofs. Two mathematicians then collected these proofs and published them in 1998, with new proofs being added over the last 2 decades.
DvQD TIL that in 1963, a man, after knocking down a wall while renevating his house, discovered an enterance to the entire Derinkuyu Underground City located in Turkey