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TIL that despite being the second most subscribed channel on YouTube, little is known about the company that produces children's channel Cocomelon. Both the Wall Street Journal and Wired Magazine have investigated and been unable to find anything.

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b6gYZ TIL Chinese jade burial suits could take up to ten years to make and were ordered well in advance of death. Liu Sheng was known as a man who enjoyed good living and by the time he died in 113 BC his stomach had grown so large that another hundred plaques were added.
mAlo TIL of The Sons of Lee Marvin, a secret society where the only requirement for entry to the club is that one must have a physical resemblance to plausibly look like a son of Lee Marvin. Members include Tom Waits, Jim Jarmusch, Nick Cave, Neil Young and Josh Brolin.
JYRkj TIL: During 1944, license plates were manufactured from pressed soybean fiberboard due to a shortage of steel caused by the war. Goats, cows, and mice reportedly enjoyed the taste of these plates, with some vehicle owners losing their plates to a snack for the animals.
YpV8P TIL CIA had an instructions manual for U2 pilots describing what they could eat, so that didn't had the urge to poop while on mission, which often spanned around 9 hours. The plane had no means of disposing the fecal matter.
WkLwN TIL that the chemical chlorine trifluoride, is so flammable it can set virtually anything on fire. In the 1950's, a 1 TON spill of this chemical burned through a foot of concrete, another 3 feet of sand and gravel beneath that, with a side of deadly clouds of corrosive hydrofluoric acid gas.