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TIL that a stolen 9.5 million dollar Stradivarius Cello was nearly turned into a fancy CD rack

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l7Ov1 TIL a deep-space supernova or sun-flare expelling cosmic rays and charged particles may have caused a 2003 Belgium miscounted election by bit flipping an election machine and causing a candidate to receive an extra 4096 votes
6ExXY TIL Will Smith is the only actor to have 8 consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office, followed by Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks with 7 each.
Bg1Re TIL in 1861 the balloon Enterprise flew 500 feet above the White House and its pilot transmitted a message to Abraham Lincoln via telegraph.
vdAL TIL Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon turned down shoe deals from big brands, chooses 34.99 Spalding shoes from Payless “How can a poor working mother with three boys buy Nikes or Reeboks that cost $120?…She can’t. So kids steal these shoes from stores and from other kids. Sometimes they kill for them.”
g9m4 TIL China does not have it’s own army. The ‘Chinese army’ is actually the military arm of the Communist Party.