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TIL: there is a massive underground labyrinth under downtown Portland

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R7pZ4 TIL that James McCune Smith, the first African-American doctor, was rejected from all American colleges and had to attend the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where he graduated at the top of his class
W7aXB TIL in 2006, Emerson Electric filed suit against NBC after the pilot episode of Heroes featured Claire Bennet reaching into an active garbage disposal and injuring her hand. The company claimed the scene "casts the disposer in an unsavory light, irreparably tarnishing the product".
R7KQj TIL in 2013 multiple gunmen shot up power transformers in Northern California and cut fiber optic cables, causing over $15 million in damage and outages. The gunmen were never caught.
yjMl TIL scientists have found 1.5-billion-year-old water in a mine 1.5 miles beneath Ontario, Canada
XEZxR TIL of George Martonaro, a man who was sentenced to life without parole on non-violent charges. In his 32 years in the prison system, he learned dozens of subjects, taught numerous courses such as creative writing to over 8000 inmates, and authored more than 30 books.