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TIL that DARPA honored Val Kilmer by popping popcorn with a super powerful laser

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9YPgQ TIL of the "World's Littlest Skyscraper", a building built in 1919 by a man who accepted $200,000 (in the 1910s) for it's construction, neglecting to point out to investors that the listed height of 480 was in inches, not feet.
8BKb TIL that Australian Aboriginals have a form of execution in which they curse the offender who often dies after a few days as they believe so strongly in the ritual.
X05rR TIL that in Vermont, an apple pie is legally required to be served with a glass of cold milk, a slice of half an ounce of cheddar cheese, or vanilla ice cream.
7lOx TIL that we have more than the 5 basic senses (hearing, feeling, seeing, smelling, and tasting). Other senses include magentoception, the ability to detect magnetic fields, as well as chronoception, the sense of time passing.
VBE0B TIL in 1790s Samuel Ireland announced a rare discovery of Shakespearean manuscripts and plays. Experts were convinced they were real. Shakespearean scholar Edmond Malone proved the handwriting was forged and William Henry Ireland, Samuel's son and lawyer-apprentice, eventually confessed to the hoax.