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TIL that the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas uses more electricity than the entire country of Liberia

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aDAZ TIL Apollo 11 Astronauts couldn’t get life insurance prior to their launch so they gave themselves their own “life insurance policy made of autographs” that could be sold by their families if they did not return.
VM7Ap TIL the population of Canada's under 20's has been virtually unchanged since 1971, actually being about 470000 less today
M7oZa TIL "Save Me" by Aimee Mann is about Dave Foley (Kids In The Hall, NewsRadio)
0Wv1 TIL You could fit the Netherlands into Mongolia thirty-seven times! BUT you can fit Mongolian roads into the Dutch road system sixty-seven times!
oRrRr TIL according to Pliny, Roman Emperor Tiberius once became so enamored by the sculpture "Apoxyomenos" that he took the sculpture out of the public baths of Agrippa and into his own private bedroom. After public uproar, he placed it back into the baths out of shame.