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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.

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jV1j TIL jimmy kimmel launched a campaign to end womens suffrage. Apparently a large number of women were willing to sign away their right to vote
D14Vr TIL people used to throw mortgage burning parties to celebrate when they paid off their homes.
5YOx8 TIL that there is a widespread belief—one with no historical or grammatical foundation—that it is an error to begin a sentence with a conjunction such as and, but or so. In fact, a substantial percentage (often as many as 10 percent) of the sentences in first-rate writing begin with conjunctions.
wRJW TIL that Millennials Are Having Way Less Sex Than Their Parents and are twice as likely as the previous generation to be virgins
DQdOD TIL that Moe, Curly, and Shemp were brothers. Larry wasn’t related to the other ones.