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TIL the Troll A Platform, a natural gas platform in the middle of the Troll Gas Field off the coast of Norway, is the tallest and heaviest structure ever moved to another position, relative to the surface of the Earth, and is among the largest and most complex engineering projects in history.

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8eXQL TIL that when the first rail bridge over the Mississippi River was being planned, riverboat operators pushed for rigid standards in hopes of making the bridge impossible. Instead, the bridge pioneered multiple engineering techniques and still carries road and rail traffic 150 years later.
5e0D TIL a weird 1969 new wave sci-fi novel correctly predicted the current day: “President Obomi”, “satellite TV” and more.
JObm TIL that Yhprum’s Law, which is the ananym of Murphy’s Law, states that “Everything, that can work, will work.” In other words, “Sometimes systems that should not work, work nevertheless.”
oBnGK TIL That in 1938 pitchers intentionally walked and pitched around Hank Greenberg as he closed in on Babe Ruth’s (at the time) record of 60 home runs in a season, because they didn’t want a Jew to break Ruth’s record.
ANKoo TIL the country Papua New Guinea has over 840 languages spoken within the nation, by far the most in the world.