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TIL about Dead Horse Bay's Glass Bottle Beach. A beach covered in glass bottles and other nonbiodegradable garbage from a land reclamation project in the 1950s now exposed due to erosion.

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ANPwa TIL: The 255th episode of MASH featured a time capsule buried by the characters filled with memories of the Korean War. The time capsule was real - filled with props. The property was sold and a construction worker found the time capsule and took it home. He got permission to keep it from Alan Alda.
x6yg1 TIL myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has an economic impact of 36–51 billion dollars per year in the USA, yet historical research funding is far below that of comparable diseases
ZV5R TIL learned when the Soviets exhumed Tamerlane’s body in 1941, they found an inscription in his casket that said “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Hitler invaded the USSR two days later
w8ME TIL On July 1, at the Battle of the Somme, a charge of 60,000 lbs. of explosives was detonated creating a crater that was 300 feet across and 90 feet deep. The explosion, which occurred in France, could be heard as far away as London and was the loudest man made sound in history at the time.
Brp5r TIL the eggs in Alien initially had a more vaginal appearance complete with an "inner and outer vulva". Producers worried that Catholic countries would ban the film, so Giger changed them so that "seen from above, they would form the cross that people in Catholic countries are so fond of looking at"