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TIL largest offshore gas platform - Troll A, It stands almost 500 meters tall and weighs 656,000 tons - it's one of the biggest man-made objects ever towed

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ne99B TIL that after winning the Nobel Prize in 1922, Carlsberg brewery gave Niels Bohr a special gift: a house with a pipeline connected to its brewery next door, thus providing him with free beer for life.
rPJw TIL: a 14 year old boy needed 13L of blood during emergency surgery decided that when he was 18 he was going to start giving blood. Doctors discovered a rare antibody in his blood. He has saved over 2.4 million unborn babies over 5 decades.
woVEo TIL the only reason we have video of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series is because Bing Crosby was too nervous to watch the game live so he had a company record the game for him. During this time TV networks didn't keep records of the games. The tape was found 50 years later in his wine cellar.
E1GYP TIL that isolated towns in arctic regions literally have nowhere to send their trash, so they have to be creative in how they dispose of and store it
X0OKj TIL that human infants as young as 14 hours from birth prefer to look at attractive faces rather than unattractive faces