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TIL That people believe the Earth is hollow and that inside are the lost tribes of Israel and the surviving Nazis.

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nemV7 TIL that Abraham Lincoln once gave a speech so enthralling that reporters in the audience stopped taking notes and now we don't know what he said.
Jy81 TIL a volcanologist died at an observation camp when Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980. He had agreed, for one day, to fill in for a colleague who was rotating out a third scientist based at the camp. The man rotated out died 11 years later during the Mount Unzen (Japan) eruption.
x7b7 TIL That Arnold Schwarzenegger has killed 509 people on screen throughout his entire career as an actor- and the “White Death”, Simo Häyhä, the sniper with the most confirmed kills in any major war, has killed only FOUR FEWER real people.
a8AjL TIL that the Pink Floyd release of Dark Side of the Moon was 50 years ago!
0wpON TIL the September 11 terror attacks on the WTC released a dust cloud of toxic asbestos fibers across Manhattan, with an estimated 410,000 people exposed. It is believed lung cancer and mesothelioma cases in the city will reach a peak in the year 2041 (four decades after 9/11)