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TIL 66% of Cleveland residents are functionally illiterate
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TIL that 3 people died while in a flight simulator in a flight safety building, due to a plane crashing into it.
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TIL South Korea grounds all planes and businesses are open later on the day in which students take the test used for admissions to universities
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TIL that Peter the Great of Russia loved partying, so much so, that he started a club called The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters. It started as a group of 80-200 men, and grew to more than 1,500 men as the parties got bigger and bigger. They got in trouble for mocking the Church.
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TIL about gorillas in the wild with the ability and knowledge of how to dismantle poacher traps.
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TIL rather than using a mirror, some observatory telescopes were built to use a large, spinning pool of liquid metal as a reflecting surface