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TIL of the "Underground Great Wall of China", a 3000 mile long tunnel system used to transport ICBMs between silos.

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VM1J8 TIL of the 'Cannonball Run.' An illegal road race from New York to Los Angeles held five times during the 1970's. The record time was 32 hrs and 51 minutes.
pY7RZ TIL that railway tracks and tunnels undergo mandatory nightly checks in Tokyo
D16rP TIL we can’t see atoms under an ordinary microscope because atoms are smaller than the wavelength of visible light. The smallest thing we can see with visible light contains 10 billion atoms.
bAeN TIL “Mele Kalikimaka,” the Hawaiian phrase for “Merry Christmas,” is actually just a phonetic attempt to say the English phrase using the palette of sounds available in the Hawaiian language.
R7M08 TIL that Metro Meteor, a retired champion racehorse, has paintings that have sold for over $2000 and the money is used for treatments that are saving his own life