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TIL Grant Imahara made a lifelike Baby Yoda robot to visit children in hospitals and cheer them up before he passed away

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0wXdv TIL Air Marshall Sir David Grahame Donald fell out of his Sopwith Camel at 6000 feet as he was attempting to fly in a loop. He free fell for 2000 feet before his plane, continuing the loop, happened to cross below him. He grabbed onto the plane and landed it.
gMBB9 TIL there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth. The size of the universe is inconceivably large.
OGxBa TIL the heat from the Mount Vesuvius eruption was so intense, it turned parts of one victim's brain into glass
VBVvm TIL that a former Kellogg factory worker filmed himself urinating on a cereal conveyor belt at a facility in Memphis, Tennesse, only to upload a video of the incident two years later. Kellogg only learned of the incident after the video was uploaded.
dan7 TIL from 1575 to 1578, expeditions from England to Canada brought back thousands of tonnes of black rock at huge expense of money and lives, after a Venetian alchemist lied about it containing gold ore. After discovering the true worth, it was used to build a wall around one of Henry VIII’s homes.