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TIL the Boeing 747 fuel tank is so big it takes up the entire wing span of the plane.

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1A6W TIL Blackjack hall of famers get free room and board at Barona Casino, so long as they promise not to play the blackjack tables.
VBKKm TIL of Elmer McCurdy; a funhouse prop that turned out to be a real corpse
4na6 TIL, there is a prisoner who has spent 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement
9YRxM TIL every morning, English submarines equipped with nuclear warheads emerge and tune in to BBC Radio 4 "Today" show. If it fails to transmit, they assume UK had been destroyed.
6Rmm TIL that the Zildjian, the cymbal company, is one of the oldest companies in the world (nearly 400 years old). The company began when Avedis Zildjian, an alchemist, was looking for ways to turn base metals into gold.