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TIL Switzerland has enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate the entire population.

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69478 TIL about the Ash Grove music club in Los Angeles. It was a mecca for blues and folk legends from 1958 to 1973. It influenced a generation of artists like Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger.
ODv7 TIL that an international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
mxDky TIL that a man in the UK grew tired of cold callers to his phone line, so he set up his own phone line as a premium rate number. When cold callers phoned him, he would be making money by keeping them talking.
yQEvM TIL that singer Ella Fitzgerald's career had a late renaissance when, at an audition for Memorex Recording Tapes' advertising, was asked to break a glass using the power of her voice, and she succeeded.
BM4D TIL the longest running science experiment in the world is in Australia, where they have been watching asphalt slowly drip through a funnel since 1927