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TIL There is an underground facility in Turkey that was originally built in 700BC that can house up to 20,000 People and Livestock

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9YrWB TIL that Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster. They are known as hyperaccumulators because they are capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima to aid in soil restoration.
AE74 TIL there is a sport that combines chess and boxing. It’s called chessboxing
xnNb TIL Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford got drunk with his cronies, wrecked a small town in Ireland, painted it red (literally), beat up a few cops and painted them red too. Thus the term painting the town red was created.
GAWlj TIL: that in Australia they have net enclosures to provide safe swimming at some beaches
N0B8 TIL that astronaut Alan Shepard’s pre-launch prayer before becoming the first American to reach orbit was “Don’t fuck up, Shepard…”