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TIL that in Luxembourg you must be trilingual (French, German, Luxembourgish) to graduate secondary school

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E1XGP TIL 6 students were killed after falling near UC Berkeley when their balcony sheared off. It emerged that the contractors who built the complex had paid $26.5 million in settlements for previous defect cases, but the information had not been available to the state construction licensing authorities.
Lk6xm TIL the actors on Mad Men were smoking Ecstacy herbal cigarettes, that have no tobacco or nicotine in them, partly because actors smoking real cigarettes get agitated and nervous according to the show creator.
ZNba TIL Adam West was once kicked out of a celebrity orgy for remaining in character.
e0RV5 TIL that cruise ships can emit as much particulate matter as a million cars every day and the air quality on deck can be as bad as the world’s most polluted cities.
VvV8 TIL: A Salt Mining Company in Turkmenistan Uses a Mining Machine That Continuously Loops Around the Salt Pond. Each Loop Takes 25 Years To Complete.