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TIL: While cleaning up after an art exhibit in 1959, a group of janitors set out to prove they could make art that was just as good as what was on display. Their snuck-in piece of discarded scrap metal won a ribbon for merit.

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4ZMo TIL that blue whales largest veins & arteries are so big that a human could swim through them.
9ALM TIL Dr.Seuss wrote an adult book, but due to his inability to draw a sexy female it was a flop
GY1MQ TIL in April 1998 two women walked onto The Golden Gate Bridge at the same time intending to commit suicide. They did not know each other, but soon realized they were there for the same reason. A patrol officer saw them sitting on the railing, chatting. One jumped, followed by the other.
gMEpL TIL that an electrical arc flash, can reach up to 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Which is about four times hotter than the surface of the sun.
arA0 TIL the first ever cloned sheep was named after Dolly Parton because “Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell, and we couldn’t think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton’s.”