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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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Mel8 TIL that the modern Olympics used to have competitions in the arts alongside athletics. They included architecture, painting, music, sculpture and literature.
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nW6ob TIL The 92km border between Afghanistan and China has the biggest time zone difference of any border with a difference of 3.5 hours.
ejoD TIL at the age of 17 Bill Hicks’ parents took him to a psychoanalyst, who, at the end of the session, told him “it’s them, not you”.
nekY7 TIL that James Bond has slept with 52 women- 10 fewer than George Costanza according to the Seinfeld wiki