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TIL George Harrison released a critically panned electronic album years before The Beatles broke up

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X0Ge6 TIL That the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, is not connected to a sewer system and as such has trucks manually remove human excrement from it daily.
VBWG TIL That there is a push to allow all of the old analog TV signals to be used as WiFi.
9YJvD TIL of the RP FLIP (Reserach Platform FLoating Instrument Platform), a 355 foot long boat that can fill the front 300 feet with water ballast. Once full, the boat will upend 90 degrees with the aft 55 feet of boat acting as a vertical platform out of the water, like a spar buoy.
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