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TIL helium molecules are so small that they bleed through the rubber in balloons, causing them to deflate and become floppy, unfloaty & sad.

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OogAL TIL In 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first female presidential candidate. Her candidacy preceded suffrage for women in the U.S. And was a advocate of "free love" long before it was accepted.
awwEN TIL in 1954, the Peanuts character "Pig-Pen" made his debut in a strip directly parodying Piggy from Lord of the Flies. He declares, "I haven't got a name ... people just call me things ... real insulting things".
m1YpR TIL about Adam Rainer, the only person verified to have been both a dwarf and a giant.
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nebZB TIL An ancient form of cheesecake may have been a popular dish in ancient Greece even prior to Romans' adoption of it with the conquest of Greece. The earliest attested mention of a cheesecake is by the Greek physician Aegimus (5th century BCE), who wrote a book on the art of making cheesecakes.