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TIL If you have a rope long enough to wrap around the entire circumference of the globe. The rope is 24,901.55 miles long. If you now want to lengthen the rope so that it can hover one foot off the ground at all points on earth. It only takes just 6.28 feet more of rope.

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MeKga TIL of Action park, a New Jersey theme park that was known to have so many accidents in the 1980s, 5-10 victims on the busiest days, that park authority bought the nearby town of Vernon extra ambulances to keep up with the number of injured. At least 6 people died there.
pE5A TIL: Illinois’ Eavesdropping Law Was Originally Passed Because Lobbyists Were Recorded Discussing Which State Legislators Were on the Take
BYpk TIL Numerous people have been killed singing the Frank Sinatra song “My Way” in karaoke bars in the Philippines. The news media has recorded at least half a dozen “My Way Killings” in the last decade, and many bars have removed the song from their playbooks.
JORQ TIL The Victorian Government in Australia spent $5.7 Billion on a seawater desalination plant. That plant is complete and in “Standby Mode”, costing $1.8 Million per day to produce NO clean water.
l79l5 TIL That, in 2000, the record of Captain Charles McVay who was the only US Navy officer to be court martialed for loss of a ship (USS Indianapolis) in WW II was officially cleared by an act of Congress in part due to the research done by a sixth grade student.