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TIL in 2011, Disneyland Paris was Europe's top tourist destination, with almost double the number of visitors to the Louvre museum in France and almost ten million more visitors than the Eiffel Tower in Paris

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rR4Me TIL of Ken Hechtman who as a student at Columbia stole Uranium 238 was expelled. Then proceeded to break into Area 51, Yucca Flat Test Site, and was present at Timothy McVeigh’s execution. After 9/11 he entered Afghanistan illegally and was captured by the Taliban.
x6aN5 TIL the Dragon Ball anime is now 37 years old
78AM TIL that Rwanda is the only country in the world with a female majority in parliament
wL0pE TIL that the brain is more active while asleep than it is awake. The brain while awake averages 40-60 observations per second, while the subconscious brain averages 11 million!
x6eR5 TIL I learned that in England, there are "wavy" brick fences. This shape uses fewer bricks than a straight wall. The waves' arch support allows the wavy wall to stand strong while a straight wall requires at least two layers of bricks to do the same.