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TIL that the only foreign anthem ever played at Buckingham Palace was the American anthem the day after 9/11

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4wmJ TIL in the 1970’s, a plane carrying 6,000lbs. of marijuana crashed in a remote area of Yosemite National Park. Local mountaineers, rock climbers, hippies, and drug dealers made excursions to the area to take as much product as they could, all while the US government tried to secure the drugs.
YRVW TIL: 2 countries have 0.00% unemployment
gME1W TIL that Soul Asylum’s "Runaway Train" helped find 25 missing children featured in the music video, but also led to a girl being returned to a "bad home situation" and a fireman discovering his daughter was killed by her mother and buried in the mother's backyard.
gBV8 TIL in 2014, scientists created Vantablack, a substance made from carbon nanotubes, which absorbs 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum making it the blackest substance known.
40EX TIL that in 1880, the age of consent was set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was 7.