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TIL that the stage of Eurovision 2009 used about 30% of the entire global LED screen stock at that time.

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mxoXx TIL that Time tends to recognize Presidents-Elect as their person of the year as a tradition, except in a few cases.
o4OA TIL there was a book written in 1998 predicting the value of beanie babies in 2008. Written as an investment guide, some were rated as high as $1000-$2000.
OowjL TIL that an underachieving Princeton student wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an A but his paper was taken away by the FBI.
Z85oY TIL that people dress up in full suits of armor and go at each other
Q8rd TIL in 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved