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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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awAmb TIL tea was so important to wartime Britain, that in 1942 the government attempted to purchase all the tea in the world
GYnRj TIL in the 1850s, a British explorer called Somalis 'superstitious' for thinking that mosquitoes carried malaria. Then, in 1897, a British officer was credited for 'discovering' that mosquitoes carried malaria.
wRDo TIL that the Leo DiCaprio film “Wolf of Wall Street” that immortalised the life of corrupt wall street traders was largely financed by money stolen by corrupt financial traders.
Oa4R TIL in Finland, It is a legal requirement to have your headlights on, whether in summer or winter, in sunlight or darkness, even under the midnight sun.
9YoKD TIL the 1892 animated film 'un bon bock' became a lost film because the french director Emile Reynaud threw all but two of his picture bands to the Seine river as he was suffering from depression at the moment.