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TIL that the space shuttle Challenger disaster contributed to the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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oOE8 TIL Disney World is on the 2nd Floor. The Ground Floor is an above-ground system of tunnels that moves employees around the park.
oEvA TIL After the Siege of Leningrad was broken, the Soviets wanted to prosecute those who had resorted to cannibalism. However, so many were accused (over two thousand) that the NKVD had to divide them into two groups; ‘corpse-eating’ and 'person-eating’. The former were jailed, that later were shot
r51e TIL USA once decided to nuke the moon. The reason? “Because we can!”.
jNDBp TIL that Louis Wain, the Artist from Edwardian England, famous for his psychedelic depictions of cats, was influential in the species' transition from tolerated "mouse catchers" to beloved pets and figures in popular culture.
wLNXo TIL that chickens have earlobes, and the color of a hen's eggs corresponds to the earlobe color.