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TIL I learned that the physicist Richard Feynman once spend an evening breaking spaghettis apart to study their breaking patterns.

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NDa6 TIL the White Castle burger chain was founded at a time when Americans were avoiding ground beef, after the scandal of dirty meat packing plants in “The Jungle”. The founders used white porcelain and steel extensively in their restaurant design to convey the impression of cleanliness.
BjML TIL there is a Cyrillic letter so rare it is only used in the phrase “many-eyed Seraphim”
vPD5j TIL The “Grave with the Hands” in Roermond, Netherlands are two tombstones on opposite sides of a wall connected by two hands holding each other. This is for a Protestant/Catholic couple who had to be buried in separate sections of the cemetery.
awylA TIL at the time of his fatal heart attack rapper Big Pun weighed 698 lbs (317 kg). About 10 years earlier he weighed around 180 lbs (~80 kg).
jvGX TIL Mercedes-Benz prepares your ears for noise from crash by playing pink noise just before crash