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TIL of The Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster where 100’s of workers died from silicosis after being forced to mine silica without the proper protective equipment. It was the deadliest industrial incident in US history. The site was owned by Union Carbide Corp.

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epy6L TIL The Public Library of Hong Kong has at least 10x more funding than any other library in the world with an annual budget of almost 10 billion USD
GY1A1 TIL: People who suffer from gout are significantly less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease.
OWaL TIL that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) updated his alumni information at Harvard in 2012: he called his eight life sentences “awards” and his current occupation as “prisoner”
OGaEa TIL the gold ball at the top of a US flag pole is called a ‘finial ball’ and traditionally contains a razor blade, match, and a single bullet.
nWyYd TIL that there used to be over 420 species of plant growing inside or on the coliseum, some of which grew nowhere else in Europe. There is a theory that the animals that were brought to the arena to perform and fight scattered seeds that had been stowed in their fur and scat