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TIL there is a pile of waste clothes in Chile so large it can be seen from space

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9Y8mp TIL in 2012, a man sued PepsiCo arguing that he had found a dead mouse in his Mt. Dew. Thus, PepsiCo had to prove and found that a mouse would "have dissolved into a "jelly-like" substance after 30 days"
LkXJd TIL that in the 1970s the UK forcibly removed the citizens of the Chagos Islands, gassed their pets, leased their land to the US military, and has never admitted wrongdoing
kOa7B TIL in 1992, a retiree was out searching for a lost hammer with a metal detector. During his search he found a huge cache of Roman treasure, including 15,234 coins. The British government gave him and the owner of the land £1.75 million for finding it. Later on, he also found the hammer
jNA8a TIL that the Queen christened the British Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth with a bottle of single malt Scotch whisky from the Bowmore distillery on the island of Islay instead of champagne because the ship had been built and launched in Scotland.
jN9aj TIL that in 2008 a fire at Universal Studios destroyed up to 500,000 original masters most of which weren't backed up and is the biggest disaster in music history