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TIL that in Barcelona, exist a public fountain that pump liquid mercury instead of water and is protected by a glass

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ANbvo TIL the busiest transit hub in the western hemisphere is located below Madison square garden. (In the 2020s it also expanded to the James Farley building.)
P1LYg TIL when the Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, the bill was given the identifier "H.R. 1776."
grbab TIL - in 1984, National Lampoon published a parody of Frank Herbert’s Dune - called Doon (the dessert planet). The currency everyone sought was beer, rather than spice.
4RZw TIL that cheap pink White Zinfandel aka “jug wine” was invented by mistake. Instead of dumping it, Sutter Home bottled it, marketed it and it’s been the 3rd top selling wine in the U.S. for more than 30 years, making the owners fabulously wealthy and angering wine snobs.
Z8NNp TIL those maple seed "helicopters" are called samaras!