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TIL that the biggest movie explosion was in the James Bond film ‘Spectre’

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OLmY TIL that in 2006, it took Akira Haraguchi, a retired Japanese engineer, 16 hours to recite the first 100,000 digits of pi from memory only. To prove that the exercice was legitimate, everything was filmed, even his trips to the toilet. Despite this, he has yet to receive a Guinness World Record.
ky81 TIL of a book entitled Atlanta Nights that was written by a group of sci-fi authors to be intentionally terrible as a test for the publisher PublishAmerica. It included a chapter containing computer generated random sentences and two word for word identical chapters. The publisher accepted it.
YV6B TIL of Allison Jenkins, who was convicted of felony murder of a police officer after the arresting police officer accidentally shot and killed his own partner
XkoQ TIL that in Canada, mothers who kill their newborns almost never receive jail time, and the most they can receive is 5 years
Wk5M9 TIL while modern Icelanders' paternal ancestry is primarily (75%) Norse, most of their maternal ancestry (62%) is from Scotland/Ireland