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TIL the DEA tried to ban Glowsticks from Raves.

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oB1vL TIL Russia and the United States are only 2 miles apart, and during the winter, you can walk between the two nations. There have been proposals to built highways and high-speed rail connecting Asia and North America the Bering Strait.
b9WQ7 TIL The second person to survive going over Niagra falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, later died after slipping on an orange peel
DMGD TIL It has been 50 years since Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor-neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Hawking’s condition was first diagnosed when he was 21, and he was not expected to see his 25th birthday.
VJVZ TIL that the brain consumes 20% of the body’s energy, despite it accounts for only 2% of a person’s weight or about 1.4 kilograms.
wLlL1 TIL a fleet of Italian-built C-27A cargo planes were purchased for the Afghan Air Force in 2012. Including maintenance costs, the total tab was $596 million. In 2012 they sold them for scrap metal for $32,000 US dollars (six cents a pound.)