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TIL that for the release of Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, 9,000 FedEx trucks and 100 airplanes were used with no purpose than to deliver the book.

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Wkk6o TIL President McKinley was reluctant to accept the security available to his office. His secretary feared an assassination attempt would take place during a visit to the Temple of Music (where McKinley was indeed assassinated) and took it off the schedule twice. McKinley restored it each time.
e0045 TIL that warner bross produced a series of cartoon shorts designed to instruct service personnel about security, proper sanitation habits, and other military subjects during world war II
yVZWl TIL there was a hostage crisis at Berkeley , California in 1990s where the accused (who was suffering from a schizophrenic episode) demanded trillions of dollars from the federal government in his bizzare list of demands.
KpXw TIL when Google goes down, they lose 100k a minute, and 40% of the internet goes down with it.
xljD TIL Maj. Wilbert D. “Doug” Pearson is the only person to have achieved an air to space kill.