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TIL that during Christmas 2000/New Year’s Eve 2001, Czech TV suffered a bizarre crisis that, among other things, left the public channel off the air for 2 days.

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11MD TIL Rollercoaster loops are never circular, but instead, are designed with an upside down “teardrop” shape. This is because perfectly circular loops will subject riders to up to 6Gs of g-force, causing them to get injured.
6El1m TIL: 1$ flight that goes nowhere. It is setup by a retired aircraft engineer from India so that the poor people in India get to experience it in their life time.
Brk7D TIL the highest g force voluntarily experienced by a person was 46.2 g's by John Stapp. He rode a rocket sled that reached a top speed of 632 MPH, The land speed record at the time and he stopped in 1 second. For a brief moment his body weighed 7700 pounds.
j6jBN TIL that All of Earth's water—including oceans, icecaps and glaciers, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and water in the atmosphere—equals ~326 quintillion gallons (326,000,000,000,000,000,000). Of that, a tiny fraction, 37.5 quadrillion gallons, is in the atmosphere above us as water vapor.
R7lQ9 TIL bee hives are kept on top of Notre Dame to increase urban biodiversity