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TIL A High School Student in Georgia Was Suspended for 1 Year After Hugging His Teacher

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woyvJ TIL in 2023 Andre 3000's song "I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time", off his album New Blue Sun, set the record for the longest song to ever chart on the Billboard Hot 100. The 12-minute and 20-second track hit the chart at No. 90.
VMG7B TIL, Larry Walters rode a lawn chair attached to helium balloons to 16,000 feet and using a pellet gun, he controlled his descent by firing the gun at the balloons, popping them one by one.
R7wN9 TIL The CDC estimates that as many as 56,000 people die from the flu each year
76or TIL Stockholm, Sweden up until 1952 had a massive telephone tower with approx. 5500 telephone lines connected to it
xaa0 TIL that in the German version of Die Hard, all the terrorists are given English names.