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TIL that The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world’s largest single machine and it crosses the border between Switzerland and France at four points, with most of it in France.

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R77M8 TIL the Mitsubishi logo is based on the literal translation of the words in Japanese. Mitsubishi translates to "three diamonds".
VBMg4 TIL that sirens are designed to trigger fear circuits in the brain.
NMV1 TIL there is a bush that is about 11,700 years old.
jNKWa TIL that the normal intelligible outdoor range of the male human voice in still air is 180 m (590 ft 6.6 in). The silbo, the whistled language of the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Canary Island of La Gomera, is intelligible under ideal conditions at 8 km (5 miles).
yQaDe TIL A theory put forward by Thomas Loren Friedman states that two countries with Mcdonald have never been to war with each other due to the economic punishment it would get if it went to war. It's called the Golden Arches theory.