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TIL the longest lasting bubble lasted for 465 days

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WmEN TIL a US born nun was killed in Brazil for speaking out about the effect agriculture was having on deforestation of rainforests.
wLaP6 TIL about Nábrók or necropants … a pair of pants made from human skin worn by icelandic witches. It's unsure if they were a real thing or just folklore.
b9lK7 TIL in a 1986 interview, Jackie Gleason said he considered suing Hanna-Barbera for The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, but passed when his lawyers cautioned, “Do you want to be known as the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air?”.
p8lxN TIL the nematomorph parasite attaches itself to a cricket, but needs an aquatic habitat to survive. To achieve this, the parasite induces the cricket into a water dive, which is a suicidal impulse to drown itself.
ReD4 TIL Lockheed Skunk works produced the first pair of working stealth aircraft despite not even being invited to compete. Everybody else besides Northrop failed or gave up, but Lockheed managed to build a pair of working stealth aircraft for only $35 million by using leftover parts from other programs