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TIL In 1978 a drunk guy tripping on LSD tried to blow up a dam in Nashville TN w/ his friends in order to loot the submerged town with through the use of scuba diving equipment

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wrW1 TIL a convicted murderer was once granted a retrial after it was discovered that four members of the jury used a Ouija board to contact the victim before rendering their verdict.
xpkD TIL The 2005 Energy Policy Act contains a provision commonly known as the “Halliburton loophole” which exempts drilling companies involved in fracking operations to be exempt from Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and CERCLA
W9eA TIL there is a lake on the Phillipines which has an island in it. Which has a lake on it. Which has an island in it.
vklD TIL that 35 out of the 49 GiB of data for the game Titanfall are just uncompressed audio files, because the developers thought that uncompressing it would use up too much CPU resources on low-end systems.
l7p01 TIL that Spiderman 2: Enter Electro was supposed to release on September 18th, 2001, but several references to 9/11, such as the games final stage being on top of the World Trade Center, had to be completely redone