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Today I learned, the city of Cleveland released 1.5 million balloons into the air, causing car accidents, the postponement of a Coast Guard search and creating a environmental nightmare on Lake Erie

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R700w TIL that the wood of Lignum Vitae is so hard and dense that the bearings of the drive shaft for the the nuclear powered USS Nautilus are made from it.
4kKpo TIL that Spain has its own territory in Africa (next to Morocco)
4kkON TIL: James Doohan, Scotty from Star Trek, landed on Juno Beach as a soldier in the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on D-Day.
mENO TIL a senior NYC mobster refused a hospital bloodbank transfusion after surgery in case he received African american blood, he then caught HIV from the donation of a fellow mobster’s blood who was an intravenous steriod user
KKwa TIL that in 2008 Speedo, in collaboration with NASA, released a swimsuit so drag-resistant that it was banned from use in swimming competitions for giving swimmers using it too much of an advantage.