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TIL A soldier once returned from deployment to find his wife had died and his young children had starved to death.

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epD8D TIL of the Town of Bingham Canyon, which was founded as a copper mining town in 1863, before being completely consumed by the copper mine as it grew. The Bingham Canyon Mine is now the largest man-made open pit mine in the world, and one of the deepest as well.
DQXGP TIL that the first Winter Olympics took place in Chamonix, France in 1924, only four nations participated in the inaugural event.
VMEZ4 TIL Radio GTMO, the Armed Forces radio station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has a vinyl collection of over 20,000 records, including some albums that exist nowhere else.
lonPN TIL a 2011 study showed that a group of 4 year olds had a temporary lapse in cognitive function after watching 9 minutes of SpongeBob
aJA TIL That physicists won the Nobel prize in 2010 for peeling graphene off pencils with scotch tape