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TIL the piece of paper on top of a Hershey kiss is called a niggly wiggly

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M7R5A TIL about the least weasel, the smallest member of the genus Mustela. Relative to body size, the weasel has a stronger bite force than a lion, tiger, hyena, or even a bear. Though it happens rarely, least weasels are capable of killing prey far larger than themselves.
16BaV TIL that in Starship Troopers (1997) the crew used over 300,000 blank rounds. Thought to be a record at the time and due the following years of CGI, the record probably has never been broken.
mPwP TIL that today is the birthday of the New York subway. The subway system officially opened on Oct 27 1904 making 110 years old. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America.
D1avP TIL in 1970 George Carlin, tiring of performing clean stand-up comedy, listed the many uses of the word "shit" one night at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. He was immediately fired and escorted from the premises.
0w7vN TIL a 16 year old survived a five hour flight inside the landing gear of a jumbo jet from San Jose, California to Maui, Hawaii. He blacked out on takeoff and the plane went to 38,000ft meaning temperatures of 75-80 below zero and a lack of oxygen probably leading to "a state of suspended animation."