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TIL that Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City is still the deadliest act of domestic terrorism.

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rNrAd TIL about "Embassy", an Australian drama series set in the embassy of a fictional South-East Asian country which the Malaysian government considered to be so offensive that it was cited as one of the reasons for a temporary freezing of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
DQmYJ TIL One of the reasons Germany didn’t develop nuclear weapons first during World War II was due to the Norwegian heavy water sabotage. In 1943, Norwegian resistance fighters launched a daring attack on the Vemork hydroelectric plant, which was producing heavy water essential for Germany's atomic bom
9YwaB TIL" George Washington allegedly said before his death that he "would never set foot on English soil again," so when they erected a statue of him in London, they put US soil under the statue to honor that claim
owaK Til. That water currents take a 1000 years to complete a cycle.
epkN4 TIL In the film "Dirty dancing", Patrick Swayze found Jennifer Grey very "unprofessional" and in a scene Jennifer Grey kept getting ticklish when when they had to film a scene where she raises her arm and he had to stroke her side. They did that take 20 times and she burst into laughter every time.