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TIL in 1981, short on money and time, a Nebraskan family organised 344 volunteers to physically lift a 17,000 pound barn and shift it to higher ground.

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QJKap TIL about Mary A. and Barbara F., both were born the same day, 157 years apart. Before they died, they both joined a friend and then went to dance. They both met their killer the same day and they both died the same day at the same place. Both killers were called Thornton and both were acquitted.
ADdno TIL Figs are only possible because of fig wasps. Females enter a fig, to lay her eggs and pollinate the fruit. She dies, her eggs hatch, the male mates with the female hatchlings and chew escape holes for females to leave and lay her eggs in another fig. Too tired, the males die in the fig as well.
94YD TIL Spain’s Paralympic basketball team were ordered to return their gold medals won in Sydney in 2000 after nearly all of their players were found to have no disability.
rNRX4 TIL that in order to promote national peace, founding father Benjamin Rush wanted to establish the position of Secretary of Peace, and at the same times post signs such as "An office for butchering the human species" and "An office for creating famine" above the office of the Secretary of War.
d876E TIL about the 'Watras incident' where a worker at a nuclear powerplant triggered contamination alert after returning from the weekend. They found the source of this being his home, flooded with radon gas. He was told that each day of living there was the equivalent of smoking 135 packs of cigarettes