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TIL: There is an evangelical church in Dallas, TX that spent $4.7 million on their privately-owned fish aquarium

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e4a6 TIL the world’s biggest traffic jam was an 18-million-car backup, on Easter weekend, April 1990, the first holiday in nearly 40 years that Germans were free to visit family on the other side of the border separating East Germany from West Germany
BroVW TIL that the largest municipality in the world is Sermersooq in Greenland, with an area of 531,900 km² (and a population of 23,123) - if it was a country, it would be the 48th largest in the world, larger than Yemen, Spain, or Thailand
DJvg TIL that a 2004 phone scam caused a McDonald’s Manager to strip search one of her female employees and force the female employee to perform sexual acts.
EgG8W TIL that in order to repay its debt to the IMF, South Korea began a gold collecting campaign in 1998. The three month campaign saw 3.5 million citizens donate 227 tons of gold, worth about $2.13 billion
AN057 TIL Riding Big Thunder Mountain at Disney World Can Help Pass Kidney Stones