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TIL There was a contest in 2003 to find which building in the world was the most penis-shaped.

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MeRl0 TIL Work at Bell Labs resulted in 9 Nobel Prizes & 4 Turing Awards. Bell laid the first transoceanic phone cable, mapped dark matter, created radio astronomy, the transistor, laser, solar cell, information theory, Unix, C & C++, error detection, cell phones, optical tweezers, electron lithography.
LbX9 TIL that John F. Kennedy’s grandmother not only outlived him, but was never told about her grandson’s assassination.
e0pen TIL there is a fish poison makes hot things feel icy and cold things feel burning hot.
XEWXP TIL that there’s a frozen dead guy in a Tuff Shed in Colorado that has been “preserved” for 27 years with a twice-a-month dry ice run.
8aZ0P TIL the adhesive used on Post-It notes was developed in research at 3M by a scientist Dr. Silver as a failed super strength adhesive. For years Silver could not think of a use for it until his fellow scientist Art Fry considered its use to hold notes in his hymnal to mark pages for choir practice.