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TIL that the city of Cloud Cuckoo Land in The LEGO Movie is likely a reference to the 414 BCE Athenian Play The Birds in which a man convinces birds to build a city in the sky

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5YPY8 TIL the United States Postal Service is the single largest employer of veterans (22% of the postal workforce) and nearly a third of the veterans are disabled.
JA04 TIL most newer vehicles do not need an oil change until the 5500-7000 mile mark.
b6J6a TIL Ezekiel Hart was twice elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada but was denied his seat on both occasions for being Jewish. Opponents to Hart wrote a poem declaring a Jew in the Assembly as more foolish than Caligula's appointing his horse a Roman consul.
oBymE TIL the Bikini swimsuit was introduced by Louis Réard four days after the first nuclear device was detonated over the Bikini Atoll. Réard hoped that his swimsuit's revealing style would create an "explosive commercial and cultural reaction" similar to the social reaction the nuclear explosion.
647 TIL A Particle Accelerator with 5x the Power of the Large Hadron Collider was planned in Texas but was scrapped due to budget concerns