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TIL - Gordie Howe personally provided the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” a copy of his #9 Red Wings jersey

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wL10J TIL about Shigeru Yokosawa, a sixty-year-old hospital admin who sacrificed his life by, in the face of an approaching tsunami, rushing to retrieve the hospital's satellite phone. The phone he saved became his colleagues' only lifeline to the outside world after the disaster.
ZvpB TIL Cleveland once released 1.5 million helium balloons. The weather kept the balloons from dispersing and the resulting chaos ended up costing the city millions in lawsuits and took weeks to clean up.
MDkV TIL that any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the empire state building!
LkLr0 TIL that Las Vegas as we know it is not actually part of Las Vegas. The Las Vegas strip that is world famous was started as an unincorporated territory, and remains so to this day under the official name of Paradise, Nevada.
7b17 TIL that since Queen’s lead guitarist Brian May could not afford a guitar at the beginning of his career, his father and he decided to build an electric guitar from scratch with old oak wood from a fireplace in 1963. He still plays “Red” wherever he tours.