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TIL that up to half of the people who buy vinyl records do not listen to them.

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lo1ba TIL Douglas Parkhurst killed a four year old girl in a hit and run accident in 1968, a crime for which he never faced justice. 50 years later, he pushed some kids out of the way of an enraged driver on a baseball field, but was struck and killed himself.
awke0 TIL The Kingdom of Bhutan only has one international airport, located at 7,332 ft elevation in a deep valley surrounded by 18,000 ft mountains and only a select number of pilots are certified to land there, due to it being one of the most challenging airports in the world.
GAW04 TIL that the US military was concerned about the potential backlash from Catholics if Rome was bombed during WWII.
dgGE TIL: Despite many of their most popular movies (Tarzan, Hercules, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty) coming from the free public domain, the Walt Disney Company actively fights to make sure Mickey Mouse will never enter the public domain.
X0DLr TIL about the Higgs boson, also known as 'the God particle', an elementary particle which is responsible for granting other particles their mass. Its existence was first proposed in the 1960's, but evidence for the particle would only be found in 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider.