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TIL spray paint used to cake up in automobile factories to such a degree that it could be cut, polished, and set in jewelry. The resulting stone is known as “Fordite” or “Motor Agate”

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yVn6a TIL Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, an encyclopedia of navigation, has been in print since 1802. It is so popular that it's colloquially referred to after it's original author "Bowditch". In 1867 the US government bought the copyright and has published 52 editions of it since then.
VBl60 TIL stars larger than the sun fuse elements in a cycle where carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms act as catalysts transforming into each other continuously. After a full cycle, the net result is 4 hydrogen atoms consumed and 1 helium atom released along with energy, at which point the cycle repeats.
NXAvb TIL North Korea was the first ever Asian country to reach the Quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup. During the quarterfinals, they scored 3 consecutive goals leading 3-0 for 25 minutes before conceding 5 goals and losing 3-5 to Portugal
M6jA TIL HBO, Showtime and FX all turned down Breaking Bad.
WkV0Y TIL: The US tried to hide nuclear missiles in Greenland without Danish knowledge in Project Iceworm.