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TIL Human Hair has about the same tensile strength as steel of the same width

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ZpJMG TIL the first 100,000 pressings of Tiger Woods ‘99 for PlayStation contained a video file of an early South Park short film, snuck onto the disc by an EA Sports employee.
5VJKr TIL about a woman who following a brain illness, was not able to recognize any voice except Sean Connery
xEyD TIL There is a road in Lancaster, CA that has grooves carved in it that when you drive over them all, they play The William Tell Overture.
Me6LV TIL about Eugene Shoemaker. He was a geologist in the mid 1900's who wanted to go to the moon. He failed the medical exam to go to the moon, but he still helped train astronauts on Apollo 11,12, 13. After dying in a car crash his ashes made it to the moon. To this day they're still there.
W7j6N TIL about the parable of Chesterton’s Fence: Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.