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TIL There is a video of GH Bush being rescued by a submarine

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e0dr5 TIL that the largest air traffic shut down since World War II happened in 2010 due to the Eyjafjallajökull eruption. 95,000 flights were cancelled in a 6-day period.
DQEor TIL in 1975, the representative of Queen Elizabeth II dismissed the Australian Prime Minister from office
y11p TIL there was some controversy to the inclusion of Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B. Goode’ on the Voyager Golden Record. Carl Sagan was told that rock music was adolescent. Sagan responded, “There are a lot of adolescents on the planet.”
QJpoM TIL that the user agreement of a popular Japanese robot includes: the owner must not perform any sexual act on the robot, and the robot may not be used to harm humans or to send out spam emails. The company has also said that tampering with the robot to give it a sexier voice would be frowned upon
85kK TIL the city of Sao Paolo passed a “Clean City Law” a decade ago banning outdoor advertisements. Over 300,000 ostentatious business signs, billboards, posters, bus and taxi ads were taken down. Removing ads revealed civic issues, including hidden slums previously masked by adverts.