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TIL, the largest IMAX screen is in Melbourne, Australia and is 105x75 feet.

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ANGjd TIL that the Battle of Messines involved the detonation of 19 massive underground mines, causing 10,000 deaths instantly. This explosion is believed to be one of the largest non-nuclear man-made explosions in history
NXnAJ TIL despite its closure 5.31.24, one college’s baseball team is in the College World Series. For the first time. With no school to go home to. Film crew is following.
AY6g TIL Earth is struck by approximately 1 septillion asteroids daily. (That’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroids.)
yLoV TIL Someone serving in the American military is 15 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a compatriot than killed in action.
ePN5 TIL that Labor Day was created by President Grover Cleaveland in 1894, after 30 striking railroad employees were killed during the Pullman Strike