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TIL the sharpest object every made is a tungsten needle, which tapers down to the tip being about the size of an atom.

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XEBDQ TIL Steve Martin leaked his own rider, which includes a roasted chicken to use as a dancing puppet, a pair of swim trunks in case there is a pool onstage, and a booklet called "How to Make Money From the Banjo". (The booklet must be more than two pages long.)
mxd1R TIL in 1988, Greek cyclist Kanellos Kanellopoulos flew 119 km from Crete to Santorini in an MIT-built aircraft powered only by pedals, paying tribute to the mythical flight of Daedalus and Icarus
YXZA TIL Hungry foxes have been known to urinate on hedgehogs to force them to unroll before eating them.
78AAX TIL that the plant and color “fuschia” is actually spelled “fuchsia,” (pronounced fook-see-ya, not fyoo-shah) and named after a German botanist named Leonhart Fuchs.
xVVXD TIL despite repeated warnings by safety inspectors to install smoke alarms and sprinklers, the Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure had burned down in 1984 killing 8 teenagers.