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TIL there is a water filled cave in Nevada that experiences “miniature tsunamis” in response to earthquakes as distant as Japan.

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Br6lK TIL In 1933 Asbestos companies settled claims about the damage of asbestos, they then funded the research so they could control it.
0wLBA TIL about the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, "They say that history is written by the victors, but the Civil War has been the rare exception.....the South’s version has held sway in our schools, our literature and, since the dawn of feature films, our movies." — Mick LaSalle
ANPJa TIL: During one filming session of the 2004 movie, “passion of Christ”. assistant director Jan Michelini was struck twice by lightning and Minutes later, Jim Caviezel (the actor for Jesus) was also struck. Both survived
7XQL TIL: Treadmills used to be used as punishment for prisoners in the 1800’s. The treadmills powered grain mills (hence the name treadmill) and pump water.
l7LvN TIL tiramisu, the Italian dessert of coffe-soaked ladyfingers, sweetened marscapone, and cocoa powder is only around fifty years old, having been invented somtime in the late 1960s or early 1970s.