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TIL it is illegal to release balloons in the state of Florida

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NXyZ1 TIL that Stalin didn't like constructivist architecture and under his rule cheap mass-produced buildings were de facto banned from being built in large cities, which instead were filled with grandiose buildings with detailed façades and labour intensive masonry.
VNXk TIL the largest (and possibly oldest) single organism on earth is a parasitic fungus covering nearly 2300 acres
VMgZD TIL Steve Jobs insisted on buying iOS engineer Steve Forstall lunch with his employee badge. When Forstall protested, Jobs replied 'No, no, no. This is great. I only get paid $1 a year. I don't know who's paying every time I badge.'
pYvOe TIL “Just Desserts” is a pun. The original phrase, “Just Deserts”, describes not desert climates but “moral deserts”—or, things which one morally deserves. “Desert” and “Deserve” share an old French root, but the word “desert” is very rarely used in this form in modern day.
4XPMJ TIL The first scientist named in history was En Hedu’anna, the chief astronomer-priestess of Ur. She lived around 2300 BC, the only daughter of the great empire architect Sargon of Akkad, and called the Shakespeare of the ancient world as her works were studied for 500 years or more after her death.