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TIL Walt Disney World is the largest consumer of fire works in the United States.The park also launches the fireworks with compressed air instead of gunpowder to reduce fumes and gain better height and timing

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WB4X TIL that there is a Patron Saint of the Internet
4Xd5R TIL when France was occupied by the Germans in 1940, Citroen was forced to produce vehicles for the Nazis. They chose to move the fill line on their oil dipsticks lower, causing the trucks to seize under stress from low oil.
R5gg9 TIL about the highest confirmed death toll from a lighting strike happened in Durunka, Egypt, 1994. When, during a thunderstorm, a lightning strike ignited three oil storage tanks and the floodwaters swept the blazing fuel into the village, killing approximately 469 people.
N7l0P TIL Mason Gamble, the actor that played Dennis in Dennis the Menace in 1993, beat out 20,000 kids with his audition for the role
6emX TIL there is a garden in a bottle that has only been watered once and is still going strong 40 years later!A.K.A “self sustaining ecosystem”