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TIL... that you can buy liquid mercury... O and an anvil will float in it due to its density

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Pv6O TIL part of the reasons for Disneyland’s grand opening disaster was the counterfeit tickets, as 28,154 guests passed through the park’s gates with such tickets. It was supposed to be 15,000 on invitation-only.
kOdE5 TIL: The Striped Blanket Seemingly Every Newborn is pictured in is from an Illinois company. 1.5 million are sold each year
EMld TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the “Technocracy Movement.” Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who had the expertise to manage the economy.
0wDR5 TIL that in 1915 a man by the excellent of name Cecil Chubb went to an auction to buy some furniture for his wife. He came back as the owner of Stonehenge for £6600. According to local legend, his wife would’ve rather had the furniture.
jVgN TIL a Buddhist monk who died in 1927 has yet to show signs of decay after his body was exhumed for the third time in 2002.