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TIL there are only 25 blimps left in the world.

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D14xe TIL on September 12th 2001, the day after 9/11, The Queen had the Royal Guards break protocol and play the United State's National Anthem for the Americans stranded in London
yQQMp TIL that surgeons and their staff play music 62-72% of the time while operating on patients
NrA8 TIL there is a cafe in France which charges €7 a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to wait staff
Lko7d TIL Tentacles and arms are different and an octopus has 8 arms not tentacles
nWBQG TIL that there are crystals that suddenly cannot be recreated, having been replaced globally by more stable forms via global contamination of microscopic seed crystals