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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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Wr8N TIL a year before “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch killed 4 people while driving drunk, he was caught with alcohol and a naked, passed-out 14-yr-old in his truck. Since then, his mother was convicted of forcing another vehicle off the road and his father was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
QNPvM TIL Ralph Lazo was the only non-Japanese American who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp. He was 17 years old and spent two years in internment.
X4kD TIL The Empire State Building’s spire was originally meant as a dirigible docking station.
yV7MX TIL 1/3 of reproductive age women are iron deficient
X0J68 TIL in the 1980s, NASA had a 1-900 number which charged $2 for the first minute and $.45 for each additional minute. It allowed callers to listen in on a mission status report and mid-flight press conferences, and thousands of them heard the Challenger explosion in real time.