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TIL the inventor of the Frisbee was turned into a Frisbee after he died .His ashes were molded into a limited edition batch of flying discs.

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nZRo TIL that a man in NJ was charged $3750 for a bottle of wine, ordering it after a waitress told him that it was “thirty seven fifty”.
lojeN TIL the oldest continuously ongoing company in the world is a construction company in Japan specializing in Buddhist temples. Established in 578 CE, it is as old as the time when Buddhism was introduced into Japan in 538 CE. In 2007, after 1,429 years in business, it ran out of money.
BYEb TIL that Adam Devine (Workaholics, Pitch Perfect) credits being hit by a cement truck and confined to a wheelchair for ages 11-13 as being the reason he went into comedy.
78rm7 TIL that young king crabs will hang off the underside of sea pigs for protection from predators
RwQ8 TIL there are Catholic Patron Saints for caterpillars, astronauts, hardware stores, invincible people, things that go BOOM, the fear of wasps, coffee houses, unattractive people, TV writers, taking exams, and the Internet