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TIL Texas Pete is from North Carolina

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W7V4d TIL that between March 1910 and September 1911 a pressurized oil well explosion formed the Lakeview Gusher, releasing 9 million barrels of crude oil and flooding the area in rivers of oil. It's a "miracle" that the oil field had not caught fire and the event remains the worst oil spill in history.
XWG6 TIL: The only X-files episode to carry a TV-MA rating for being very disturbing (for its time) was “Home”, about an inbred family
YpRaG TIL that there is a truly massive 18 level 250 ft deep underground city beneath Derinkuyu Turkey built in antiquity 1200 to 800 BCE.
a8mVN TIL that the Canadian Provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador have an unresolved border dispute over 180,000 square kilometres. The dispute originated prior to Newfoundland and Labrador joining Canada in 1949, and continues to resurface periodically.
epkVD TIL The world's biggest kitchen is often considered to be the kitchen at the Sri Sai Sansthan Prasadalaya in Shirdi, Maharashtra, India which uses state of the art technology to prepare free meals for over 40,000 people on a typical day and sometimes more than 70,000 for special festivals.