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TIL The Tidewater Pipeline was the World's first oil pipeline built in Pennsylvania and still exists today and is used for fiber optic cables.

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xgm0 TIL in 1450, a pack of wolves invaded Paris and killed 40 people. The killing ended when a group of people banded together and stoned and speared the wolves to death in front of Notre Dame Cathedral
mYDM TIL Mr Rogers’ car was stolen and when it made the news, it was returned with a note saying “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
5wG9 TIL Spongebob Squarepants is 28 years old.
Z8QAR TIL that French Guiana is legally part of France, and not a separate country, in a similar way to Hawaii being legally part of the USA. Technically all maps of France should probably have a window with French Guiana in the corner, the way Hawaii usually appears on maps of the USA.
D1Q6V TIL that one of the main engineers behind NASA's Challenger rocket, which exploded in 1986, revealed that after NASA would not heed his warnings against launching in the cold weather, he told his wife the night before the launch, "It's going to blow up."