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TIL that 2014 marks 200 years of peace between the United States and Britain

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6LRJ TIL Nicolas Cage has already bought his grave. It’s a 9-foot pyramid in New Orleans.
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b6ewN TIL that, 1.7 billion years ago, there was a naturally occurring nuclear reactor that produced power for hundreds of thousands of years.
1awW4 TIL that in 1982, a man died while vandalizing a saguaro cactus for fun. He shot the cactus repetitively and then went up to poke it to try to get it to fall over. Instead, the 500-pound saguaro arm fell and killed him.
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