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TIL that telling “scary ghost stories” on Christmas eve is an all but lost Victorian tradition

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6QNw TIL a German startup build the world’s largest aircraft hanger and then went bust. The hangar is now one of the world’s largest water parks containing the world’s largest indoor rainforest.
yVnAv TIL of the mystery soda machine on Capitol Hill Seattle, that operated from the late 1990’s until abruptly disappearing in 2018. The machine dispensed flavours of soda that were typically discontinued.
JYJj4 TIL that a 16th century Christian mystic/magician claimed to have come in contact with angels who shared with him the language spoken in the Garden of Eden. It has been called "Enochian" because Enoch was supposedly the last person to speak it, and it's used to cast spells in Enochian Magic.
9YK9X TIL that human subjects have been shown to grossly underestimate exponential growth. "Neither special instructions about the nature of exponential growth nor daily experience with growth processes enhanced the extrapolations."
8BgK TIL Walt Disney thought the Tyrannosaurus Rex wasn’t scary enough with 2 fingers. He demanded a third finger be added in all artistic depictions.