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TIL that the deepest London Underground station, 221ft underground, was never completed and was used to store secret archives during WWII

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6EK0Z TIL in 2006 when the Japanese government announced that ear cleaning would no longer be considered a medical procedure, thus making medical licenses unnecessary for ear cleaners, a new type of business sprung up in Tokyo and other big cities: ear-cleaning parlors, which now number in the hundreds.
LNQV TIL all the decor on the walls of every Cracker Barrel restaurant are not only authentic, but also picked, restored, and decorated by a Tennessee man and his small team.
nWlvd TIL About Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rican Nationalist who attacked the US House of Representatives to protest the forced takeover of Puerto Rico, shooting Five US Congressmen
nQkG TIL the Queen of England’s portrait has been on enough international money to make a progressive timeline of her aging
16lW7 TIL Neil Armstrong had rejected numerous proposals to have an author write his biography until he finally accepted a proposal from James Hansen, a history professor. He eventually recorded more than 50 hours of interviews with Armstrong, who did not demand approval rights for "First Man" nor profit