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TIL that Europe has an official anthem
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TIL of Balloonfest ‘86, a publicity stunt where the United Way of Cleveland released 1.4 million balloons over the city. The balloons tied up highway and air traffic, caused lawsuits seeking millions in damages, and interfered with a Coast Guard search for two boaters who were later found drowned.
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TIL A UK university was fine £400,000 after 2 students were accidentally given a lethal dose of caffeine during a scientific experiment. Because of a misplaced decimal point on the phone used to calculate the caffeine dosage, they received 30g instead of the planned 0.3g. The lethal dose is 18g.
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TIL that the annual electricity cost of running the Large Hadron Collider run about $23.5 million.
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TIL that in the US, 25% of rural bridges and 33% of urban bridges are considered to be structurally deficient by the American Society of Civil Engineers
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TIL to film the weightless space scenes in the Apollo 13 movie the cast and crew did 612 25-second takes aboard NASA’s zero-gravity plane