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TIL the 1971 film "Wake In Fright" follows a man stranded in an isolated outback town whose residents are consumed by binge drinking and gambling. During the film's early screening in Sydney, an offended viewer shouted, "That's not us!" One of the actors yelled back "Sit down, mate. It is us."

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e0Ojn TIL that the US has a submarine base in a lake in Idaho.
6EwKW TIL: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, designed by the “Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons,” so isolated prisoners that many went insane. (The 1829 castle-like complex did have better comforts than period prisons --like dependable heat. Shut: 1971, ruin-park since '94.)
m1JKy TIL Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt I was born in Staten Island in 1794, and by the time he died in 1877, played a major role in America’s rise as an industrial power. He began his transportation empire with a small sailboat in new york Harbor ferrying people from S.I. to Manhattan
l6L7 TIL that female lumberjacks are called lumberjills.
ZpwgD TIL there is an Iraqi bellydance called Kawliya which involves flipping the hair and rolling the head in a manner reminiscent of a heavy metal fan at a concert. Kawliya used to be considered a disgraceful dance but is now very popular with Iraqi women who like to dance this way at social events...