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TIL there is a theatre in Boulder, CO that offers discounts on white russians if you dress up like The Dude when they show the movie.

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NQOE TIL Byron White was a former star football player who became a Supreme Court Justice. He ruled in the case of Runyon v. McCrary in which a black student was rejected by a private school. That student, Michael McCrary would later become a NFL Linebacker and won the Byron White NFL Award in 2000.
X0meP TIL of the Janka Hardness Test which is the measurement of force required to embed an 11.28-millimeter-diameter (7⁄16 in) steel ball halfway into a sample of wood. This is the standard test used to determine the hardness of all woods.
6pV8 TIL of the Lofstrom Launch Loop, a potential and safer alternative to space elevators that could be built with currently existing materials.
gLv9 TIL that in 2007, Costco had to recall some punching bags because they were filled with dirty underwear instead of sand.
OGeja TIL the 2019 collapse of the Thomas Cook travel agency triggered UK's largest peacetime repatriation. Called Operation Matterhorn, over 140,000 British tourists were recovered with 150 aircraft in 746 flights. During that time, the UK government briefly was UK's 5th largest airline