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TIL The longest English word takes three and a half hours to pronounce

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xVjB TIL the coffee shop manager in the robbery scene at the end of Pulp Fiction is credited as “Coffee Shop” because he is cut off as he speaks: “I am not a hero, I’m just a coffee shop–”
oBYrr TIL that Lego has launched a “Braille Brick” concept. It’s designed help children who are blind and partially sighted learn braille. The Braille Kit is expected to launch in 2020, with 250 bricks covering the alphabet, numbers 0-9, and select maths symbols.
0K5y TIL Robert Downey Jr. was able to return to the big screen after his drug addicted past because Mel Gibson paid his insurance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective after no one else would insure him on a movie set.
RKVQ TIL Kenny Baker, the actor inside R2-D2 in each of the six Star Wars films said of C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels “He’s the rudest man I’ve ever met.”
OGAEY TIL about Alexander Abian, an Iowa State professor who thought that blowing up the Moon would end natural disasters on Earth