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TIL that there’s a construction themed park where you can operate real heavy machinery for fun

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R967 TIL Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams, contains the line “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”
loWoA TIL: Charlie Chaplin was never an American citizen and was essentially exiled. During the McCarthy era, the FBI put him under surveillance, and a Mississippi congressman called for his deportation. The U.S. government then revoked his re-entry permit in 1952 as he traveled to England on vacation.
Xd9j TIL of Bombardier beetles who shoot boiling chemicals at predators by having internal explosions from mixing 2 chemicals.
wnr8 TIL Sean Connery was filming a love scene when his co-star’s gangster boyfriend got jealous and pulled a gun on him. Connery grabbed the gun from his hand and twisted the guy’s wrist until he ran off the set
roAw TIL that one of the London suicide bombers went back to the casher in a restaurant because he didn’t get enough change, just one hour before he blew himself up in the subway