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TIL free drink refills are banned in France

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DQ88D TIL that the largest theater pipe organ in the world is located in the Franklin, WI Carmex factory
xZAw TIL that Cristiano Ronaldo refuses to get any tattoos on his body just so he can continue on donating blood
W7rKL TIL Apache Helicopters can do inverted maneuvers. Thought it only happened in video games.
Yp6DP TIL about Solar Maximum cycles and the Carrington Event. A solar storm that hit Earth powerful enough to start fires and cause sparks from telegraph wires. The aurora was seen as close to the equator as South America and Northern Australia. The next Solar cycle is predicted to start this year.
JYdL8 TIL in 1994, radio shock jock Howard Stern talked a suicidal caller out of jumping off the George Washington Bridge in New York. He was live on air conversing and making jokes with him until he was able to be restrained and sent to a hospital.