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TIL that the largest known object in the universe is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall and it's 10 billion light years across.

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ZEkB TIL that there is a small town outside Fort Worth, TX named White Settlement. In 2005, a record number of voters turned out to oppose changing the name to something less racist-sounding and then proceeded to call for the mayor’s resignation for even proposing the change.
nWorP TIL KitKat bars (UK version) grew overall by 29%, and Hershey's Milk Chocolate grew by 20% by 2015, compared to the same branded products in the 60s, but were at their largest/heaviest in the 2000s. As of 2015, Twix had shrunk, but Snickers and Mars had grown
VBW7p TIL the distributor for the movie Snowpiercer (2013) requested that the scene involving a fish be removed, but director Bong Joon-ho convinced them to keep it in by lying about his father being a fisherman and claiming the scene was dedicated to him. Bong's father was never a fisherman.
oRWJ7 TIL blue eyes are blue due to a lack of melanin which lets more light scatter making them appear blue in the same way that it makes the sky appear blue
b6oD0 TIL the Danelectro eletric guitar company bought a surplus of women's lipstick tubes, put a bar magnet wrapped directly in copper wire in them, and made one of the most basic and cheapest pick-ups to date.