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TIL in 2009 the Large Hadron Collidor was temporally disabled by a bird dropping a chunk of baguette on an electrical substation. In 2016, the LHC was again shut down, this time by a weasel.

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8apN8 TIL Amelia Earhart was one of the first celebrities to found her own line of clothing and luggage, and was a major icon of women's fashion in the 1930s.
AgNn TIL a space time capsule has been proposed that would carry messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it would re-enter Earth’s atmosphere.
VBm8B TIL that Anton LeVey based the Church of Satan on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
x6685 TIL that the green revolution of the 1950s and 60s led to the widespread reduction--and in some places elimination--of famine and food insecurity. One leading figure in the revolution, Norman Borlaug, is credited with saving at least 1 billion people from starvation.
mWxY TIL the movie, The Constant Gardner, is inspired by a real life event involving Pfizer testing Trovafloxacin, an untested and unproven antibiotic, on 200 children in Africa without their informed consent which led to 6 deaths and multiple cases of blindness, brain damage, and deafness.