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TIL Saudi Arabia takes as much water it wants from Arizona for free

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KO9aJ TIL that the only existing footage of the first plane hitting the tower during 9/11 was only recorded because 2 people wanted to make a documentary on what it was like to be a firefighter in New York City, and when the cameraman heard the plane, he pointed it at the tower, and captured the crash.
grMKb TIL On July 14, 1935 Penelope Powell and Graham Balcombe made what is considered to be the first cave dive. It was conducted at Wookey Hole in England. This historic site is still open to the small membership of divers belonging to the Cave Divers Group
Gx8G TIL A handful of Bronze-Age men could have fathered two thirds of Europeans
Q0DX TIL that 5 men volunteered to stand directly under a nuclear bomb that detonated 18,500 ft above them [Video Inside]
69g5W TIL in 1942, the city Winnipeg, Manitoba was mock-occupied by mock-Nazis, part of a campaign known as "If Day" to sell war bonds