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TIL that Moscow is a state of mind

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v14a8 TIL that to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve, revelers on Times Square are herded into pens. They have to stay in there for hours without any toilets, so many people wear adult diapers.
ROn7 TIL Lego has no military related sets because the inventor’s policy was to not want to make war seem like child’s play
8aQla TIL Used Crayola crayons that are too small to grasp or too flat to draw with are named “Leftolas”. In 2003, the company asked kids around the country to send in blue “Leftolas”. Crayola received the equivalent of 123,000 crayons. They used it to create Big Blue, a 1,500lb crayon that’s 15ft long.
b6eyj TIL that Tina Turner had her US citizenship relinquished back in 2013 and lived in Switzerland for almost 30 years until her death.
mxwPY TIL there is a bug in Microsoft Excel in which the program assumes Feb. 29, 1900 is a real date. This bug was purposefully put into Excel in order to be backwards compatible with the same bug in Lotus 1-2-3.