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TIL: That A Man Renovating His Home In 1963 He Discovered A Tunnel… To A Massive Underground City.

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4xkR TIL in the 1930s, an Irish man named Michael Malloy survived being intentionally fed Antifreeze, Terpentine, Rat Poison, being left in -14 Degree Weather and getting hit by a taxi in a life insurance scam. His nickname became “Mike the Durable”.
VMkxQ Don’t worry, you’re not alone – our planet is bulging slightly around its midriff as well.
Y4LA TIL Since the release of ‘Captain Phillips’, there has been controversy over its portrayal of Phillips, with several crew members claiming that he was not the hero presented in the film, and that he was at least partly at fault for an “insistence on being fast and making money.
QQkd TIL a journalist using pseudonym “Aryan Whitney” managed to get an A+ rating for white supremacist group Stromfront from Better Business Bureau for a $425 payment. He also managed to get an A- rating for Palestinian group Hamas for the same price.
WknG4 TIL that George Newhall and Tom Yohe, co-creators of the "School House Rock" series of educational short songs, produced a similar series for NBC in 1978 called "The Metric Marvels" to teach kids about the metric system in support of the US' short-lived transition to metric.