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TIL Statue of Liberty sized industrial machines weighing over 8,000 tons are moved to their final location after being built. This requires roads, bridges, and docks built for this specific purpose.

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6EoOm TIL On the Hawaiian island of Oahu, 31% of albatross pairs are same sex, 'lesbian' couples.
DOPr TIL that British band Jethro Tull initially had trouble getting repeat bookings, so they changed their name frequently. The name “Jethro Tull” stuck because they were using it the first time a club manager invited them back.
Gky5 TIL North Korea has an estimated $6 TRILLION worth in mineral and rare Earth metal reserves, but cannot be mined because NK lacks the technology to do so.
awe0Z TIL that two Welsh tourists in Australia, Rhys Owen Jones and Keri Mules, once got so drunk that they went to SeaWorld and swam with dolphins, let off a fire extinguisher in the shark enclosure and stole a penguin called Dirk
6EREl TIL when whale dies, it sinks to the bottom of the sea where it becomes a source of food for many spieces for over 100 years