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TIL that the Los Angeles Union Station was Built on an Area that Used to be Old Chinatown

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9YpGr TIL - Andre the Giant holds the record for the most beers consumed in 1 sitting. 119 beers in 6 hours is a beer every 3 minutes!
ANRPn TIL about Belphegor's prime, 1000000000000066600000000000001, a palindromic prime number with 666 at its heart and 13 zeros on either side. It was named after one of the Princes of Hell, who was charged with helping people make ingenious inventions and discoveries.
rN4Be TIL of the grave of Nancy Kerlin Barnett. Buried in the middle of a county road in Indiana, when her grandson heard there were plans of demolishing her grave to build the road, he camped out with a shotgun for weeks to protect it. They built the road around her.
lodrG TIL that Simone Segouin was a French Resistance fighter in WWII that was only 18 when Germany invaded. She took part in large-scale missions, such as capturing German troops, derailing trains, and other acts of sabotage. And she is still alive and just celebrated her 95th birthday.
vPw1L TIL there is a public Minecraft server dedicated to sharing censored press from countries that may block or skew their media.