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TIL that certain parts of the German Autobahn were built to be rapidly transformed into NATO warplane landing strips

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PbxG TIL There is a type of ant that can explode suicidally, spewing poisonous adhesive secretions all around them.
xVAkk TIL that Elvis, two months after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, recorded a live tribute song featuring direct quotes of MLK called "If I Can Dream" and overruled his manager to perform it as the finale to his comeback special over "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
dDQe9 TIL Costco’s $1.50 hot dog combo has been the same price since 1984. When the company president said they were losing money on it, CEO Jim Sinegal told him: “If you raise the price of the effing hot dog, I will kill you.”
9YDlm TIL that out at sea, a tsunami is only about a metre high, and could pass a boat without being noticed. As it approaches the shore, it’s the sudden deceleration from about 800km/h to 50km/h which creates the immense wave
dDXwj TIL that the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the NASA affiliated research center is located in the same building as Tom's Diner, the diner in the show "Seinfeld" as well as the inspiration of the famous song of the same name by Suzanne Vega