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TIL that in 1986, 1.5 million ballons were released over Cleveland, causing 2 deaths and millions in damages through lawsuits.

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X0dP TIL that every time he stays in a hotel with a bible in the bedside table, Ian McKellen rips out the page containing a quote from Leviticus that is against homosexuality.
6LaX TIL that it snows metal on Venus
N74JP TIL a dispatcher who told a woman to deal with a shot and dying boy herself later received a 25,000$ settlement after suing for being fired as a dispatcher.
6EyXm TIL there was 128,000 square kilometres (49,000 sq mi; 32,000,000 acres) of irrigated lawn in the US, three times the area of irrigated corn
ANr1l TIL that, due to its short orbit around the sun (just 88 days), Mercury is, on average, the closest planet not only to Earth but to all the other planets in our Solar System as well.