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TIL “thirty-nine places of pi suffice for computing the circumference of a circle girdling the known universe with an error no greater than the radius of a hydrogen atom.”

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OA41 TIL ~900 Germans from the town of Demmin committed suicide in panic of the advancing Red Army. Mothers walked into rivers with a rock in a backpack and their babies in their arms. One man shot three young children, then their mothers, then his wife, then himself, but survived as a blind man.
J1LJB TIL the US government utilized weather warfare during Vietnam
M7KYA TIL the Big Box store concept was pioneered by the Rhode Island based Ann & Hope retailer. The Kmart and Walmart founders, among others, borrowed features for their own stores.
Lk8jd TIL that Queen Elizabeth II sends a greeting card to anyone in the United Kingdom or a Commonwealth realm celebrating their 100th or 105th birthday, and every birthday after that.
j6LBj TIL someone invented a 26-pound "Party Gummy Bear" in 2011. The 32,000-calorie gummy bear is 17 inches long and has a one-year shelf life