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TIL it would take over 9.4 million typical party balloons to lift Carl’s house, in the Disney Pixar movie “UP”

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nemOY TIL before his death, author Robert Louis Stevenson gifted his friends daughter his own birthday. The daughter had been born on Christmas, and complained she felt like she had no real birthday
b64Vj TIL that Rush's 1981 single "Red Barchetta" was based on a 1973 short story published by Road & Track magazine. The subject matter of both stories were dystopian futures where certain types of vehicles were either heavily legislated or outlawed entirely, and government surveillance was everywhere.
5YaXp [TIL] you should not pee on a jellyfish sting because it might make worse. Instead you should gently try to remove the tentacles in salt water or gently scrape them off with something plastic like a credit card.
xVgk5 TIL of the Bombing of the Bezuidenhout, an incident in which the British RAF accidentally bombarded a civilian neighbourhood in The Hague resulting in 511 casualties.
Aw8w TIL of The Hole. A facility owned and operated by the Church of Scientology that held executives against their will for months at a time. Abuse and humiliation tactics were used to force confessions from members who were believed to have counter intentions from the church and its leader