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TIL the State of Kansas is literally flatter than a pancake.

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gMxR4 TIL thousands of Volkswagen diesel cars are parked in limbo in the California desert. VW spent $7.4 billion buying back 335,000 cars due to Diesel-gate and parked them in 37 remote storage facilities around the U.S.
mDnp TIL the NFL stopped a $16 million study into the football and brain damage connection because they didn’t approve of the doctor conducting it, despite giving an unrestricted $30 million to the NIH to fund the research
R5vL8 TIL blackjack has a house advantage of only around 1-2% for skilled players & up to around 20% for unskilled players, while craps has a house advantage as low as less than 1% for skilled players & up to around 16% for unskilled players.
loJy5 TIL that in 1958 an underwater mountain was blown up on the west coast of Canada so ships could traverse the river. At the time it was the largest peacetime, non-nuclear explosion in the world.
OoLg4 TIL Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt