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TIL NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, the largest open air building in the world, is so big that it has its own weather. Air condition must be used all the time otherwise it may rain inside.

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xVa1k TIL Dinosaur names like "Triceratops", "Stegosaurus" and "Velociraptor" are just the name of the Genus they belong to, and the actual species' names are "Triceratops prorsus", "Stegosaurus stenops" and "Velociraptor mongoliensis".
kJ4re TIL a volcanic eruption in 1783 in Iceland led to famine across Europe which may have spurred the French Revolution and modern democracy.
p8nNQ TIL that in 1981 the plane Steve Wozniak was piloting crashed. He suffered head injuries and amnesia but later stated that Apple II computer games are what helped him regain his memory
ANm8g TIL a Canadian town Tisdale used to have a motto "The land of rape and honey" which was changed to "Opportunity grows here" in 2016.
7rkvO TIL the stolen Ruby Slippers have been found after 13 years.