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TIL that the last woolly mammoths lived at the same time the Egyptians were building the pyramids

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PY7GO TIL in the movie The Princess Bride, when Count Rugen knocks Westly played by Cary Elwes on the head the tap came a little too hard and Elwes was knocked legitimately unconscious; he later awoke in the hospital. It's that take, with Elwes actually passing out, that appears in the film.
nWN9b TIL Hatsune Miku (a virtual pop idol) made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2014. A bewildered Dave compared the experience to "like being on Willie Nelson's tour bus".
8aZeP TIL that when crowds get as dense as 6 or 7 people per square meter, they begin taking on the characteristics of fluids. This can lead to "crowd crushes," where waves propagate through the group and push people into tight spaces, crushing them to death.
9RKD TIL that 7 people possess physical keys to the internet. By combining at least 5 of them, they may together control the authenticity of the internet
QNkL TIL there is a 500-year-old statue of a man eating a sack of babies in Bern, Switzerland, and nobody is sure why.