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TIL that the world record for maximum time aloft (MTA) with a boomerang is 6.5 minutes.

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kAm1 TIL that broccoli is ‘man-made’ through the breeding of different cabbage crops.
nbxG TIL A woman was nearly killed after teens threw a 20 lbs frozen turkey through windshield of her moving car. When she woke from a coma with brain damage and a surgically reconstructed face, she pressed for leniency in the case, transforming the delinquent teen’s life. They still keep in touch today.
e0GJE TIL that Pop Its were invented by a former classmate of Anne Frank, inspired by imagining "a large field of breasts, that you can push the nipple" from one side to the other
WkBaN TIL Nintendo of America tried to make Pikachu into a humanised tabby cat with large breasts
N7Lre TIL that Peter Glasser was granted a patent in 1973 for converting solar energy to electricity in outer space and beaming them back to earth as microwave energy using a large antenna (up to one square km).