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TIL that Moscow is rumored to have a huge secret underground metro, called metro 2, that is bigger than the actual public Moscow metro and connects government buildings

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v18X4 TIL In 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the US Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. A large chunk demolished a car.
6E9nW TIL The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day for Plumbers around the United States
J1Mpm TIL that Ireland has a population of Wallabies, they were introduced in the 1950s but the population took off in the 1980s when Dublin Zoo had a surplus of the marsupials
EgdJX TIL to avoid detection by sats Indian scientists working on nuclear testing would only work at night and return things to normal place by morning
x65Ng TIL about SubTropolis - A 55,000,000-square-foot artificial cave in Kansas City that is claimed to be the world's largest underground storage facility.