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aELJ TIL San Francisco International Airport is essentially built on top of 267 ball bearings whose support columns are capable of moving 20in any direction during an earthquake
bxjN TIL Three Israeli prisoners in Sweden rejected an offer to continue their sentence in Israel because the Swedish prison “resembled a five-star hotel”. The prisoners had their own TV airing world cup games, a wide variety of food including steak and conjugal visits.
4kk5X TIL fewer than 100,000 British people are older than Queen Elizabeth (96). She is the only monarch 85% of her subjects have ever known.
X07OD TIL that Jack White of the White Stripes originally wanted to save the guitar riff used in "Seven Nation Army" for if he got the chance to make a James Bond theme song. 5 years after the song was released, he wrote the theme for the 2008 Bond film Quantum of Solace.
j6nwR TIL a woman named Susan Bennett spent four hours a day, every day, in July 2005, recording nonsensical phrases and sentences without knowing why. She didn't know until 2011, after a friend who had purchased the newly released iPhone 4s emailed her, that she was the voice of Apple's Siri assistant.