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TIL that Pink Floyd’s inflatable pig, Algie, broke loose during the shooting of their 1976 ‘Animals’ album cover and resulted in grounded flights at Heathrow Airport.

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697rw TIL that medicines are the third largest cause of death in the world after heart and cancer.
wLjP7 TIL bees can fly higher than 29,525 feet above sea level. That’s higher than Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.
yXYw TIL That Marvel has banned comicbook writers from creating new X-Men or Fantastic Four characters, stopped X-Men and FF merchandising, and cancelled the Fantastic Four comic all in order to spite Fox, who owns the movie rights
0AnM TIL that theoretically if astronauts traveled in a spaceship at a constant 1g of acceleration they could travel the entire universe in their own lifetime, while billions of years would pass by on earth.
D46e TIL in 2004 the CEO of Smith & Wesson stepped down after it was revealed that he had served 15 years in prison for armed robbery. When asked why he never told anyone, he said “No one asked.”