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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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xVNVg TIL about Ghana's Dancing Pallbearers. The story behind the famous dancing funeral meme.
KYyKG TIL the song "Mony Mony"'s title was inspired by Tommy James' view of the "M.O.N.Y." sign atop the Mutual of New York Building on the New York City skyline from his Manhattan apartment.
KOJrE TIL that most symbols we use in mathematics can be neatly categorized into the following categories: constants, variables, delimiters, operators, relational symbols and notational symbols
M7VAW TIL that Andrew Jackson's grey parrot Poll attended his funeral, and "commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house.”
R5V88 TIL the first successful public demonstration of ether anesthesia took place on October 16, 1846, at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Morton administered ether to a patient undergoing surgery to remove a tumor from his neck, rendering the patient unconscious and insensitive to pain.