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TIL The strongest known material in the universe is nuclear pasta, believed to exist in the center of a neutron star.

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JYwEj TIL Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is about a red-headed clerk who had a crush on her husband, but the song is named after one of her fans. Dolly told her, "That is pretty. That sounds like a song. I'm going to write a song about that."
ZOrY TIL Ferrari and Mercedez keep blueprints to every car they’ve ever made and will produce parts for them if you need one repaired.
kODp4 TIL a truck carrying six torpedoes overturned in Denver causing an eight hour traffic jam after no one picked up the emergency number with the Navy and the Army couldn't find anyone to fly an EOD team.
DyNY TIL there are 7 miles of tunnels connecting 95 acres beneath downtown Houston, w/restaurants and shops so area workers need not go outside in the heat and rain
W7xdN TIL that the first woman to serve in the United States Senate was also the last member of Congress to be a slaveowner.