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TIL In the Town of Green Bank WV it is illegal to use any WiFi and cellphones.

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OolY4 TIL about Project A119, a plan by American scientists and the Air Force to nuke the moon in a show of force during the Space Race. They also thought that dropping a bomb would allow them to be able to accurately study previously mysterious lunar properties
R7Jyj TIL the Nazi's made 1,096 Concentration camps and not 4 or 5 as they made it seem in school
p8Gne TIL that in 1901, a doctor was told mid-surgery that he was needed urgently elsewhere, to which he responded that he could not leave "even for the President of the United States". He was then told he needed to operate on William McKinley, the President of the United States.
xOOk TIL of a Shabbat elevator. These elevators stop at every floor so that Jews won’t have to press buttons on the Sabbath since pressing buttons is considered ‘doing work’.
eegD TIL Dolphins can see our skeletons and heartbeats via their sonar and have even been known to ward off sharks preying on humans.