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TIL we tried fracking with nukes in the 60s, and only stopped because the gas was too radioactive to use

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oB4lo TIL To try to combat mosquito outbreaks, Disney World monitors coops of “sentinel chickens” that are stationed around the park. If a mosquito-borne virus shows up in the chickens’ blood, Disney doubles down on its bug-slaying efforts in the area.
OGEY6 TIL Mount Rushmore construction was completed on Halloween (October 31, 1941)
950m TIL Freddie Mercury of Queen once dressed Princess Diana as a man and took her clubbing. Nobody recognized her.
nWmm9 TIL that a young Beethoven met Mozart. After asking him to play something of his own, Mozart ran to his wife and said, “One day he will give the world something to talk about."
rN6b1 TIL: Rice brokers were extremely influential during the Edo period. Rice brokers provided rice loans, set up the Kyoto central rice market, and introduced paper money. However, inflation, the inability of samurai to pay back their loans, and the debasement of rice ended the rice broker profession.