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TIL 100 years ago, the University of Denver and School of Mines had a rivalry so intense it escalated to armed students, prisoners, and dynamite bombings until the Governor intervened

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BQ6x TIL that Walt Disney’s last words were “Kurt Russell” for reasons completely unknown even to the actor himself.
DbnD TIL Tucked in the middle of Los Angeles, is a small bird sanctuary called Serenity Park. It’s a place where abused birds and combat vets bond and heal. The theory is that, through their shared trauma, they connect on an emotional, almost spiritual, level. They’ve had much success in treating PTSD.
b9KE7 TIL that the first public demonstration of a one-way videophone occurred on April 7, 1927, between Herbert Hoover (then U.S. secretary of commerce) in Washington, D.C., and officials of AT&T in New York City. This was followed by the first demonstration of a two-way videophone, on April 9, 1930.
YgmG TIL A British bomb detection dog in Afghanistan died from the stress of seeing his handler shot. They had set a new record for bomb detections and the dog was awarded the equivalent to a Victoria Cross.
mZAO TIL in 1987 the US Government approved a project to construct world’s largest super collider. As of 2011 the construction site sits abandoned, with as a total $2 billion dollars wasted.