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TIL a company will drive you over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge if you’re too scared to drive it yourself

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b6xop TIL the 3 reactors that melted down at Fukushima in 2011 were built in the 1960s and early 70s, and were actually older than the reactors at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island
bMVQ TIL a 35 year-old gold miner, using only hand tools and dynamite, moved 5,800 tons of granite, building a half-mile tunnel to move his ore. He finished the project at age 67.
v1kAr TIL that actors in China are sometimes dubbed over by voice actors due to not speaking Mandarin well enough and because the voice actors can act better and deliver their lines with more emotion.
4XGYN TIL that deer in India (who are red-green colorblind) take advantage of the better-sighted langur monkeys by staying near them and learning the monkeys' alarm signals for when they spot predators which are dangerous to the deer.
MGGW TIL that Miss USA 1957, Leona Gage was stripped of her title when it was revealed that she was 18, married, and the mother of two children. Here she is on The Ed Sullivan Show.