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TIL: The world’s largest tunnel-boring machine is stuck underneath Seattle.

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W4PA TIL In 1986, Scott Weiland met bassist Robert DeLeo at a Black Flag concert in Long Beach, California. The two of them were discussing their love interests, when they realized they were both dating the same girl. They developed a bond over the incident, and ended up forming Stone Temple Pilots.
x6yjB TIL that in the UK, the number of women (103,575) who applied to study law at the undergraduate level in 2022 was nearly double the number of men (51,865) who did.
5YEb9 TIL Nixon's infamous "I'm not a crook" press conference took place in Disney World, also making it the first time a sitting president visited the resort
KYQyG TIL France's national ensign (flag) used to be white at various points between the 1600s and the early 1800s.
QJwME TIL Mountain goats that attacked humans because they are addicted to the salt in human urine and sweat had to be airlifted out to a different park