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TIL: All of Doctor Manhattan’s abilities have a basis in reality, with Cherenkov radiation as an explanation to why Doctor Manhattan is blue.

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0wGrv TIL the test to become a taxi driver in London requires you to memorize 25000 Streets & all possible POI's, takes 3-4 years and is considered one of the hardest exams.
A7bo TIL A Native Canadian Tribe has successfully blocked Shell’s oil tar sands expansion with treaty protections signed in 1899
BgkGx TIL about Nalanda University in India (predating the University of Oxford by more than 500 years) which was destroyed by Turko-Afghan invaders. It supposedly burned for 3 months after being set on fire and was once home to 9 million books and attracted 10,000 students from around the world.
0dyxM TIL in 1997 an Air Force pilot mysteriously crashed his A-10 Warthog in Colorado. The four 500 lb bombs his plane was carrying have never been found.
EW6o TIL That in 2004, police discovered a secret underground cinema with professionally installed electricity, phone lines, full bar, classic movies and recent thrillers, and more in the catacombs under paris. Upon returning 3 days later, a note was found that read “Do not try to find us”