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TIL that Ultrasuede (a form of synthetic suede) is partly made from molasses

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8aMVZ TIL Pornhub has participated in numerous philanthropic endeavours and raised $75,000 for breast cancer research after promising to donate one penny for every thirty views in the "big tit" or "small tit" in the month of October 2012.
0oBN TIL that Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace do not actually win the Jack Rabbit Slim’s Twist Contest. We see them walk into her house with the trophy but later when Butch is walking into his apartment a commercial is on, and the faint voice in the commercial says that the trophy was stolen.
e0Jk5 TIL The Exoplanet HD 189733 has the nickname "Rains of Terror" due to it's atmosphere raining glass and supersonic windspeeds.
y9EV TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.
1aE94 TIL that in 1941, an Italian newspaper reported that the Loch Ness Monster had been killed by a direct hit in a German air raid. However, when a family boating on the Loch in August 1941 sighted the monster, the Daily Mail made a point of noting that Nessie had survived the Nazi attempt on her life