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TIL Bill Gates rented out every hotel room on the island of Lanai, Hawaii, and chartered all nearby helicopters to not fly for the day for his wedding.

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dDvmQ TIL that in 1885 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used 300,000 pounds of explosives to annihilate Flood Rock island in New York City's East River as part of clearing Hell Gate for safer navigation. It's been described as "the largest planned explosion before testing began for the atomic bomb".
QNQgE TIL that HIGH-FIVES are a relatively recent gesture. Their documented origin begins in MLB with the 1977 LA Dodgers.
kQN4 Today I learned that under Mao Zedong, a dentist was executed for malicious slander for comparing a mango to a sweet potato.
yxXV TIL “Detroit-style pizza” is a style of chewy pizza that is baked in a square pan, which is often not a pizza pan but instead a tray that originally was made to hold small industrial parts in factories.
R5kx9 TIL the average annual amount of rainfall is greater in Sydney than London - about two times as much in fact. Rain generally falls as light drizzle in London and torrential downpours in Sydney.