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TIL it would take 260,000,000,000 balloons to lift The Pentagon

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R9P6 TIL of the Battle of Long Tan, where 106 Australian troops beat back and defeated a Vietcong force of ~2000
WyoB TIL that Peter Jackson had Bilbo Baggins’ hobbit house dismantled and shipped to his home where he buried it and now uses it as a guest house.
rR8QM TIL that the International Olympic Committee banned South Africa from competing from Tokyo 1964 to Barcelona 1992 due to the South African government’s policy of apartheid.
OGJrR TIL that musician Dagmar Turner played the violin during her brain surgery at King’s College Hospital in London, ensuring her musical abilities remained intact while a tumor was being removed.
7rLgx TIL there are ten different indigenous languages still spoken today in the British Isles; English, Scots, Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Cornish, Manx, Angloromani, Shelta and British Sign Language