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TIL Cincinnati has 2 miles of incomplete subway tunnels that have been abandoned, yet in decent shape, for almost 100 years.

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9KpM TIL when the game Twister came out it was accused by its competitors of selling “sex in a box”. The game did not get popular until it was played on The Tonight Show in 1966
VMByp TIL Hangovers cost an estimated $220 Billion loss in productivity per year
e0lXJ TIL that the red liquid seeping out of a cooked rare steak isn’t blood. It is in fact a mixture of a protein called ‘Myoglobin’ and water. Myoglobin helps muscle tissue store oxygen and just like Hemoglobin, contains iron that turns red when it binds with oxygen.
xe6w TIL that Carrots used to be purple until the Dutch discovered a mutation in orange color. Because of their national colours, they decided to continue growing that orange carrots.
KO74 TIL Gary Oldman has never received an Academy Award nomination until this year. Even though being in films such as Sid and Nancy, The Contender, The Fifth Element, Harry Potter and Nolan’s Batman Trilogy.