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TIL Ricky Gervais took on Grant Bovey ( UK soap opera Star) in a full contact boxing match.

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Z44G TIL Metal “whiskers” can grow spontaneously from circuit board components, and have caused the failure of at least one satellite, and were detected in a failed relay at a nuclear power plant
OkD4 TIL there is a book by Russian scientist Kirill Yeskov, which tells the tale of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings from Sauron’s perspective, and of the orcs retreat as they are pursued by elves in an attempt to exterminate them.
Bry1K TIL in 1981 a man named Roger Fischer had an idea for a volunteer to have ICBM launch codes put in their chest cavity. In the event of an emergency, the volunteer would carry a knife to be killed with. It was meant to force the personal killing of one man to start the impersonal killing of millions.
66EJ TIL of a parachute system for small planes that has thus far saved 90 lives
69P1w TIL that Promethium is an extremely rare metal, with only about 500–600 grams naturally occurring in the earth’s crust