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TIL that Norway has the world's first Bicycle Escalator built on a long, uphill road to help tired cyclists (or parents with baby strollers), and encourage cycling in the city.

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ANMKd TIL that it cost NASA more than $50 million to fix a 2-micron deviation in the Hubble's primary mirror to develop COSTAR, which basically acted as "glasses" for the telescope
VZWQ TIL that some movie sword replicas are built into the iron throne in Game of Thrones, for example Gandalfs Sword Glamdring.
RW1w TIL an almost-invisible square metre sheet of graphene could be made into a hammock to hold the weight of a 4kg cat, despite weighing less than one of the cat’s whiskers
m1j1x TIL that the “eternal flame” at the JFK memorial was accidentally doused 15 days after it was lit in 1963 by kids pouring Holy water on it. It was extinguished one other time in 1967 when the transformer powering the spark igniter was flooded and shorted out during a rain storm.
9ePm TIL that U.S. President James Garfield’s great-great-grandson is the creator of Magic: The Gathering