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TIL a piece of paper CAN be folded more than 8 times. The world record is 12, for a piece of paper 4000' long.

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VMnPm TIL Tesla's space travelling Roadster passed Mars, Mercury and Venus in 2018. It's estimated that the Roadster will continue in its elliptical orbit until coming close enough to Earth in 2091 to be seeable by a telescope. It might then crash into Earth millions of years in the future.
16nM4 TIL there's a man known as "the pudding guy" who gamed American Airlines' loyalty program in the 1980's by buying 12,150 cups of pudding ($3,140) for over 1.2 million frequent flyer miles. Bonus: he donated the pudding to the Salvation Army in exchange for a sizable tax write-off.
ek46 TIL Puerto Ricans were granted US citizenship against unanimous opposition: the local govt said it was a ploy to conscript Puerto Ricans for WWI. If Puerto Rico became a state today, it would have a higher population than 22 existing states.
0aL1 TIL Scotland is #1 cocaine consuming country in the world
R5Jnw TIL Pripyat the area of Chernobyl disaster in Apr. 1986 is still an abandoned ghost town w/ only tour visits frequenting the place...