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TIL - 3 KISS songs were co-written by Bryan Adams
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TIL that many people experience the “broken escalator phenomenon”; when stepping on to an obviously broken escalator, these people step onto it inappropriately fast and experience dizziness and imbalance, despite knowing that the escalator is stationary.
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TIL Saving Private Ryan (1998) was inspired by the story of the Niland brothers. Ryan was based on "Fritz" who served in the 101st Airborne Division and was close friends with Warren Muck and Donald Malarkey from E Company, 506th, later featured in Hanks and Spielberg's Band of Brothers (2001)
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TIL that toilet paper companies have made the paper roughly 20% smaller than they used to be, and have made the cardboard tube larger, all while increasing the price.
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TIL that Steven Colbert went before congress in character to defend Agricultural Job visas for immigrants.
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TIL a private company dumped 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off the coast of Canada to promote the growing of plankton capable of absorbing carbon-dioxide from the air. It is the world’s most significant geoengineering project to date.