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TIL that there will be a helium shortage in 20 years.

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5VJ1R TIL that in the 17th century, tulip bulbs became incredibly valuable and were even traded on futures markets in the Netherlands. At the peak of the craze, some individual tulip bulbs were worth more than a house.
PYZxg TIL Roughly four thousand years ago an Ancient Egyptian official, Baqet III, had depictions of jugglers engraved within his tomb.
KYRmB TIL that in 1783, two French scientists became the first humans to ascend nearly 10,000 feet using a hydrogen balloon over Paris just 10 days after the first ever manned balloon flight.
0wy7M TIL Bill Gates hijacked the control panel at an airport gate -- and got the plane to come back.
DrBj TIL that Clint Eastwood insisted on removing some of the dialogue in the original script for his character ‘The Man with no Name’ in the Dollars trilogy so that it could make the character more mysterious. As the trilogy progressed the character became even more stoic and silent