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TIL metals permanently fuse when touching each other in outer space, an effect known as 'cold welding'

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grK7W TIL That grocery store margins are only 1 percent to 3 percent of the sales price of an item
mxklv TIL Anthony Daniels (as C-3PO, a humanoid protocol droid in the service of General Leia Organa) is the only actor to have appeared in all the episodic films in the Star Wars series.
yQ5Ve TIL Clement Wragge, an Australian forecaster, was the first to give actual names to tropical storms and hurricanes . When the Australian government refused to acknowledge his system, he started naming the hurricanes after the the politicians he disliked or those that wouldn’t support him.
dDjOd TIL in Maryland, there is a mariner celebration of burning socks on the equinox, since mariners only wear socks in the winter.
oRNg7 TIL that the famous author Thomas Pynchon has avoided publicity during his fifty-year career to the point that almost all known photos of him are from the 1950s. However, he voiced himself in two episodes of The Simpsons, where his dialogue consisted entirely of puns on the titles of his books.