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TIL on 11/11 at 11:11 each year, the sun illuminates the Great Seal of the USA through the middle of the veterans memorial in Arizona.

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X0Jlj TIL before the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was completely constructed, there were concerns among the public that its high-energy experiments would lead to the formation of micro black holes or strangelets, a dark-matter-like particle that can convert all matter it touches into strange matter.
aw9JL TIL that crows can and do hold grudges. Researchers in a specific mask trapped 7 crows, resulting in the entire flock harassing anyone in this mask for years, even when disguised with a hat. This means the crows recognized the face and also communicated the grudge to crows who had not seen it.
DvVD TIL during the 2008 world hops shortage, the Samuel Adams brewery shared 20,000 pounds of their excess hops with 108 different craft breweries, at cost, to help prevent them from going out of business.
rROjw TIL there are 43 presidential busts that are twenty feet tall, in a field near Jamestown VA, rescued from a presidential museum that went bust.
bRGN TIL Kraftwerk thanked Coldplay for asking if they could use one of their riffs by saying something like: ‘Yes, you can use it, and thank you very much for asking my permission, unlike that bastard Jay-Z’