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TIL it would take 375,000 2x2 LEGO bricks stacked on top of each other to break the bottom brick

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9RkG TIL one of the founding members of modern Wicca pretended to raise the dead by reading a Swiss roll recipe backwards.
GYPd4 TIL that famous stunt performer and daredevil Evel Knievel was about to die because he couldn't get a life-saving liver transplant. When he was literally going to die in his house he got a phonecall. There was a liver available from a young guy who just passed away... in a motorcycle accident.
Y7VeZ TIL about Farm herd Casper, who faced off 11 coyotes and killed 8 of them. He was missing for two days right after which they believed he was tracking the remaining coyotes and finishing the job. His vet sad was lucky to be alive and his owner said he will have him retire from herding.
R0e9 TIL an intact steamboat from 1856 was excavated in 1988 under 45 feet of dirt in a farmers field. Thousands of artifacts were excavated and preserved so well that some of the food was still edible.
EJ0w TIL Jimmy Wales founded a porn site in order to acquire the initial funding to create Wikipedia.