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TIL that 15 birds would perish at the McCormick Place, the largest convention centre in the US, on a typical evening

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6EaVX TIL that Saturn's moon Titan is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere and the only known moon or planet other than Earth on which clear evidence of stable water-like liquids has been found
QJlmp TIL Chinese mathematician Zhang Heng invented a seismometer in 132 CE which was used to detect an earthquake 250 miles away
VBR58 TIL that stock market operators are nothing but the stock exchanges, brokerage firms and big financial institutions which makes retail investors trap
WZWL TIL more people have been to the moon than to the bottom of the oceans deepest point (Mariana Trench)
OoOoa TIL that in 2005 a group of reporters swab tested 46 bathrooms in the EU parlament for traces of drugs. 41 of them tested positive for cocaine.