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TIL that Bikini Bottom from Spongebob is actually at the bottom of the lagoon at Bikini Atoll, the famous U.S. atomic bomb testing site.

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pxdQ TIL: There’s a subway ticket machine in Moscow that accepts 30 squats as payment. Installed ahead of the 2014 Sochi Olympics to “bring sports to the people”.
M9b8 TIL that while attending Harvard in 1959, the “Unibomber” Ted Kaczynksi participated in a study where he was subjected to a “purposely brutalizing psychological experiment,” which some lawyers attribute some of his future emotional instability and dislike of mind control.
E1ReV TIL that Americans used the Hitler Salute before Hitler
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