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TIL an Airbus A380 weighs 400 tons, about twice what the Statue of Liberty does

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1Jyr TIL that the Supreme Court ruling that guarantees you legal representation in criminal trials is the result of an appeal that was hand-written in pencil by a man with an 8th grade education only 45 days into his 5 year prison sentence.
9wvwB TIL that mowing American lawns uses 800 million gallons of gas every year
1Dg4 TIL There is a bar in London with alcoholic air, and one can only remain inside for 1 hour.
6W5m TIL about a place in Canada called Cape Breton where Scottish descendants still speak Gaelic, and they sent musicians to Scotland to teach the Scottish how to play traditional music
jNdJn TIL of a supposed sunken city off the coast of Cuba that was found in 2001: it's over 2000 feet below the surface of the ocean, and has what some surmise from sonar images and footage to be pyramids and roads