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TIL about The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things - a traveling roadside attraction filled with miniature replicas of other roadside attractions.

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1V54 TIL a lunch lady got fired for feeding a hungry kid free of charge
gMwO7 TIL that legendary saxophone player Lester Young not only revolutionized jazz through his unique laid-back approach, but also had a huge influence on our language today. He is said to have coined, among other expressions, "cool" to signify approval, "bread" as another word for money and "you dig?"
L01Q TIL that a U.S. family tried to spend a year living without Chinese made goods and found it almost impossible. They wrote a book about it
Y7JWd TIL that cats were mummified along with their owners in Ancient Egypt
ANpm7 TIL when his movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith was going over budget, director Doug Liman dug into his own savings account and built a set in his mother's Upstate New York garage. And then blew it up with a hand grenade.