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TIL When British Airways had trouble erecting the London Eye, Virgin flew an airship over it saying "BA Can't Get It Up"

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PYLgg TIL in 2012, Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry began donating 3 insecticide-treated mosquito nets for every 3-pointer he made to the UN Foundation's "Nothing But Nets" campaign to help fight against malaria.
KOrG TIL the crowd at the first guillotine execution is reported to have yelled “Bring back our wooden gallows”, because a guillotine was insufficiently entertaining.
N7dmP TIL in 1822 Europeans realized that storks migrate to Africa during winter because they found a stork that still had an arrow from a Central African tribe in it.
npOd TIL there is a man in Australia who ages one year for every four. After celebrating his 40th birthday, he had the physical body of a 10 year old.
pmjO TIL that in 2009, within one month of each other, 16-year-olds in Canada and Taiwan discovered plastic-eating microorganisms that could potentially solve our plastic and styrofoam waste problems.