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TIL that in 1945 Japan attacked the US mainland with hydrogen-filled fire balloons killing 6 US citizens

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kJOxW TIL that the first Minister of Finance of Iraq was Jewish. One of his notable decisions was demanding that Iraq’s oil revenue be remunerated in gold rather than sterling - a decision that saved Iraq huge sums of money when the Pound sterling plummeted.
v1xOj TIL that 7'4" (2.24m) Boban Marjanović, is currently the tallest player in the NBA. His father is 5'9" (1.75m) and his mother is 5'6" (1.68m).
R7We9 TIL A motherboard manufacturer once built a cooling fan that uses the waste heat from the CPU to run.
0wK6v TIL that after the Six Day War, Egypt closed down the Suez Canal in 1967 with 15 ships still on it. They remained stuck there for eight years, with the boat crew members forming the Great Bitter Lake Association. The GBLA had social clubs, its own version of an Olympics, and even stamps.
KKYJ TIL: The UK Royal Mail ran an underground railway network in London of driverless trains from 1927 until 2003 to move mail between sorting offices