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TIL: There Are Only 25 Blimps on Earth

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kPn1 TIL Irena Sendlar, the “Oskar Schindler,” smuggled 2500 Jewish infants out of the Warsaw Ghetto during WW2. When caught by the Nazis she had her limbs broken and was beaten. When nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize she lost to Al Gore, who made a PowerPoint slideshow on global warming.
ykYa TIL Beyonce cleared the whole floor of a hospital for the birth of her child causing other present expectant parents to be seperated from there new born children
ep0XE TIL about the "Condor Cluster" that was unveiled in 2010 by the U.S. Air Force unveiled a supercomputer cobbled together with 1,760 PS3s that were to be used for radar enhancement, pattern recognition, satellite imagery processing, and artificial intelligence research.
9pyQ TIL that Tang, Cool Whip, Pop Rocks and Jell-o were all invented by the same man.
VMnL0 TIL It was illegal to get a tattoo in New York City between 1961 and 1997, which forced tattoo artists to operate on an underground basis.