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TIL about the Bhopal Disaster, a chemical leak from a pesticide plant in India that killed and injured more people than Chernobyl.

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OG7D6 TIL that when the US and France were both trying to build a cross-ocean canal, America originally wanted to build a canal in Nicaragua, not Panama. They only began in Panama after the French failed to complete the project.
RON9 TIL About Daniel Daly, a US marine who when his company was pinned down by German fire in WW1, led his men forward in a nearly suicidal charge with the words “Come on, you sons of b*tches, do you want to live forever?”
oRnAK TIL The Mandalorian TV series showed us a Star Wars Bathroom for the first time in their live action productions
4XKN6 TIL wherever you are on earth, there is a greater than 95% chance that the point on the opposite side of the planet to you will be ocean.
WWRL TIL that McDonald’s chairs were uncomfortable on purpose so people wouldn’t hang around after their meal. This way they could serve more people