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TIL in 1897 Indiana tried to change the value of Pi to 3.2 via legislation

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jN5QQ TIL in 1921, the 15-year-old former emperor of China, Puyi, decided he wanted to have a telephone. His advisors were afraid it would give him too much independence since Puyi usually had no contact with the outside world. But when he finally got his phone, he just used it to make prank calls.
5YENP TIL The soviet KGB had a secret beauty contest. Katya Mayorova was crowned "Miss KGB".
W7VaN TIL that “Stars and Stripes Forever” is an emergency alert at the circus. When it is played by the band it usually means there is a fire and that the performers and circus hands should go to their emergency stations and start evacuating people
yVvWX TIL that Chuck Taylor All-Stars have been around for over 100 years
pyA4 TIL: Shell launched the biggest vessel ever put to sea in 2013. The Prelude FLNG platform is longer than Sears Tower is tall, costs ~$12 billion, will weigh 600,000 tonnes (5 times as much as an aircraft carrier) and withstand category 5 cyclones.