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TIL there are only 25 active blimps on the entire planet.

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N7WoM TIL an experiment showed that baby mice can inherit certain fears from their parents via DNA
PAxL TIL that Australia’s quarantine laws during the 1956 olympics were so strict that they prevented equestrian events from occurring. The equestrian events were simultaneously held in Stockholm making 1956 the only instance of split site olympics.
nEDo TIL Ohio police can steal your identity and assign it to an undercover officer
XEoZQ TIL in 2013, Coca-Cola cancelled a promotion that paired randomly generated English and French words inside their caps until a lady received one that said "You Retard"
490N TIL An Ohio Judge, who each year would move a drunken-driving trial from his courtroom to a local high school as a cautionary tale to students, was arrested himself on a DUI after he hit a County bus, failed to stop, then refused a sobriety test after being pulled over by police