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TIL a plane landed so softly it broke the landing gear

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7X7b TIL that an encyclopedia company gave away tracts of wasteland to buyers of their whole set. This backfired when the lots at Huntington Beach were found to contain large oil reserves.
VkgQ TIL Warsaw radio mast was the tallest structure in the world until its collapse due to worker error
4Aw5 TIL that Blue has released more Greatest Hits albums than actual albums
6Ejwl TIL In the original book Uncle Tom's Cabin, Tom was actually an honorable man put to death for not telling the location of two escaped slave women. It was only in later adaptations he was portrayed as a house negro and his name became synonymous with being a servile race traitor.
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