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TIL the construction crews on the Golden Gate Bridge were forced to wear their safety equipment under threat of dismissal. (For the first time in history) They also used other safety equipment and procedures to reduce fatalities on the job.

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W4d8 TIL that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Canada declared war on Japan before the United States did.
EXdp TIL there is an accurate 200 acre scale model of the entire Mississippi River Basin (over 800k acres) that was completed in 1966, and subsequently abandoned in 1993.
kGYB TIL in 2005 a portion of T-Rex bone was dissolved in acid, it revealed soft tissue with sections of possible DNA.
R7oYw TIL a magnetar star on the other side of the galaxy experienced a "star quake". In a tenth of a second, a flare was released during the quake with more power than what our sun can produce in 150,000 years.
OGYO4 TIL that in the 1960s, the US roasted a 1440-acre swath of Wisconsin forest with ~10,000 curies of radiation for 6 months in order to determine how it affected the area. Most of the damage was confined to the area directly adjacent to the source, and the area is completely non-hazardous today.