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TIL the worlds tallest statue is the Statue of Unity in India, with a height of 182 metres (597 ft)

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bQn4 TIL that Australia is as big as the continental United States of America
wLXv1 TIL that during the opening ceremony of Ottawa international Airport’s new terminal in 1959 a USAF F-104 Starfighter did a supersonic flypast. The resulting sonic boom shattered nearly all the glass in the airport and caused significant structural damage, delaying the opening for another year.
JY9Ym TIL about two little-known places with the world's shortest names. "Å" (population 150) is a tiny fishing hamlet in the Lofoten Islands, a granite chain in north-west Norway, in the Arctic circle, while "Y" is an even smaller French village, with only 29 inhabitants.
NxJ TIL Foreign language translations had to change Tom Marvolo Riddle’s name so that an appropriate anagram could be formed from “I am Lord Voldemort.”
V6aD TIL David Bowie performed at the Berlin Wall, while East Germans gathered to listen behind. “And we would hear them cheering and singing along from the other side. God, even now I get choked up. It was breaking my heart. I’d never done anything like that in my life, and I guess I never will again.”