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TIL after Philippe Petit’s famous high-wire performance between the Twin Towers - “the artistic crime of the century” - he was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct. These charges were dropped on the condition that Philippe put on a free high-wire performance for children in Central Park.

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oZPE TIL in 1967, protesters requested a permit to levitate the Pentagon 300 feet in the air, through songs and chants, to exorcise it of its evil and end the Vietnam War. Authorities agreed to only 3 feet.
X06rE Today I learned that cigarettes and gasoline were used as forms of commodity money in Europe in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
NklP TIL that the guy who made harry potter puppet pals is the same guy that made the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny
NXdN6 TIL about Chris Lemons, a saturation diver that survived 35 minutes without oxygen at almost 300 feet below the North Sea.
AN7Kg TIL Terry Pratchett had all his unfinished works destroyed by steamroller after his death