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TIL in 1989, 2 million people joined hands and formed a human chain spanning 675.5 kilometres (419.7 mi) across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuanua. They were peacefully demonstrating for independence for their countries from the Soviet Union.

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bae4 TIL approximately 62.5 percent of the 24,000 chemicals added to the TSCA inventory since 1982 cannot be “meaningfully identified by the public” because their names are claimed as “trade secrets.” If a chemical’s identity is not known, it is very difficult, if not impossible to monitor human exposure
MeBNA TIL that more people in Alabama are college football fans than are religious
GAD1G TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd's final album featured the band engulfed in flames on the cover and was released just 3 days before their fatal plane accident that took lives of some of the members. The album was quickly pulled, and the cover was replaced but was later restored.
N7XRP TIL that in 1980, nuclear physicist Glenn Seaborg transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Seaborg's technique would have been far too expensive to enable routine manufacturing of gold, but his work was close to the mythical Philosopher's Stone.
wLWoJ TIL about the Megalithic Temples of Malta. Built during three distinct periods approximately between 3600 BC and 2500 BC on the island country of Malta. They had been claimed as the oldest free-standing structures on Earth until the discovery of Göbekli Tepe.