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TIL the waving inflatable tube man was invented in 1996 for the Atlanta Olympics by Peter Minshall, he was influenced by Caribbean Carnival celebrations

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vPNnr TIL that Robert Murdoch tried to buy in 1990 the Romanian Palace of the Parliament, the biggest administrative building in the world for 1 billion dollars, his bid was rejected.
p84VG TIL the main guy behind creating U.S. National Parks—John Muir—may have never had a deep love of nature had he not suffered a major eye injury while working as a mechanic: “I bade adieu to all my mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God”
6EXYX TIL in June, 2016 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized one kilogram of carfentanil shipped from China in a box labelled "printer accessories". The shipment contained 50 million lethal doses of the drug, more than enough to wipe out the entire population of the country.
4X4Kw TIL: There's a Vietnamese Cinderella-type story, where 'Cinderella' kills her step-sister by pouring boiling water on her and feeds her to their step-mother who finds out and dies of shock.
maPx TIL When you stop smoking weed, you’re going to experience a huge increase in your dreams and their vividness due to your brain trying to catch up on all the missed REM sleep for the next 2-7 weeks.