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TIL Hall and Oates met on a service elevator while running away from a gang gun fight.

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LkVl0 TIL When Kurt Vonnegut served in WW2 he was captured by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was a POW in Dresden and survived the bombing of the city by hiding in a meat locker in a slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. This inspired him to write the anti-war novel Slaughter-House Five.
OrOR TIL blue LEDs were not invented until the early 1990s, 30 years after red and green LEDs were invented.
aQnb TIL the planet Neptune may have a liquid diamond ocean with solid floating diamond-bergs.
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o6Yr TIL Gargoyles are designed to spout water; though often called gargoyles, other statues on gothic buildings are properly called chimeras or grotesques.