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TIL The world’s largest grand piano was built by a 15-year-old in New Zealand.

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Legp TIL Michigan State University will identify any insect, arthropod, plant, or weed for free if you send a picture of the specimen via email.
5XZR TIL, when Green day singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father died when he was a child. He ran home from the funeral and locked himself in his room. When his mother followed him home and asked him to come out. He told her to “wake me up when september ends.”
EgP9x TIL: More People Have Walked on the Moon Than Have Captured the Analemma (Position of the sun at a fixed place for a year)
jEPj TIL Bats represent 20% of all mammal species
KYvDw TIL about the Great Michigan Pizza Funeral, where Ilario "Mario" Fabbrini ceremonially disposed of 29,188 frozen cheese-and-mushroom pizzas. He had been ordered to recall the pizzas by the FDA after tests suggested the presence of botulism in some canned mushrooms he used on the pizzas.