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TIL there are “nuclear divers”, or people who dive into nuclear power plant cooling systems to perform maintenance on them.

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awp6y TIL that Ireland’s biggest football stadium uses Harris hawks to control the skies so seagulls won’t enter the stadium during the matches or after the clean up.
86ra TIL Hitler never visited a single concentration camp, nor did he ever talk about the killings taking place.
wmN7 TIL that in 1975, Morgantown, WV (Pop. 30,000) built a personal rapid transit system that comes at the push of a button, skips the stations you don’t want and is still carrying 15,000 people/day today
ne7bb TIL of Hampton, Florida - A city that annexed 1,260 feet of US 301 and used it to raise $211,328 earning it a reputation as a speed trap on a national level.
4EXb TIL that If you hear the GameCube menu background music sped up to 16x you will hear the same tune of the Famicom’s Disk System startup.