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TIL that Marilyn Monroe once walked around New York City in broad daylight with nobody noticing her. She asked her companions “do you want to see her?” When they said “yes”, she changed her walk, speech, and posture, and strangers who previously ignored her realized who she was.

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JYlAQ TIL America sent a 2000 lbs manhole cover into space in 1957 during a series of Nuclear Bomb tests about 5 weeks before Sputnik, effectively winning the space race. During an underground test shot the manhole cover achieved a speed estimated at 6 times orbital escape velocity or about 150 000 mph.
MbBV TIL Bullying, child abuse, and stress causes children to age faster at a cellular level and leads to physical and mental health problems even decades later, including an earlier death.
XE7yR TIL there's a very large, clumsy, and flightless species of ground-dwelling Parrot in New Zealand called the Kakapo. Critically endangered, these turkey-sized, incredibly friendly and hopeless birds are mostly uninterested in mating, have no practical defenses, and often forget that they cannot fly.
616J TIL in order to capture the Generation X demographic, Coca Cola created an off-beat, existentialist soda in the mid 1990s. They named it “OK” because that was the only word more universally recognizable than “Coke.”
r5EW TIL Thrift Shop was the first song since 1994 that reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label