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TIL that Steven Spielberg watched Seinfeld episodes while filming Schindler's List to cheer himself up.

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oRPV8 TIL that in 1982, a man named Larry Walters attached 45 helium balloons to a lawn chair and flew to 16,000 feet, only intending to fly 10 meters. He landed safely on a power line that broke, causing a 20-minute electricity blackout, and was arrested by the FAA for violating airspace.
dDwvK TIL that the legal age of adulthood is higher than 18 in three US states. In Alabama and Nebraska, it's 19, and in Mississippi, it's 21
vZO7 TIL that in 1976 as a show of force after 2 marines were killed by North Korean guards wielding axes who crossed the DMZ, a joint US-South Korean army brigade invaded North Korea in overwhelming force, only to cut down a tree and leave.
ep7D TIL That there is a compressed text file of 10 trillion digits of pi that is 7.6 TB
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