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TIL Concrete is the second most consumed material in the world after water.

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9YbLr TIL: Former member of Blink-182, Tom DeLonge, has signed a research agreement with the Army to study "inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion"
x6ko5 TIL TLC is still the best-selling American Girl Group of All Time and second all time behind The Spice Girls
W7QJd TIL that the law of the Mongol Empire was never made public
MD8V TIL that one of the originally pitched names for Hannah Montana was Alexis Texas.
YL4A TIL Wes Craven was able to blacklist Santa Rosa High School a once popular film setting location, because days before the filming of Scream, the school board denied filming. In the credits for Scream, Craven includes, “And no thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board.”