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TIL I made a rap verse for Baby Shark 💀
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TIL there is a record for the “highest formal dinner”, where competitors must have a three course meal with a formal table and chairs and wear formal attire at the highest altitude. The record is held at 6,800m (22,300ft) in Tibet.
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TIL they didn’t know how strong the blast of the first prototype of the atomic bomb before detonating it in the New Mexico desert. They even had pre-prepared press releases for every event from ‘loud noise’ to 'among the dead were’.
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TIL the movie ‘My Neighbor Totoro’, which released in 1988, only had eight animators working on it for eight months.
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TIL that the extinct Carolina parakeet may have become poisonous from eating toxic seeds, because cats were noted to die after eating the birds
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TIL that in 1937 a massive demand for sulfa, the first and only effective broad-spectrum antibiotic available before penicillin, and nonexistent testing requirements led to a mass poisoning with over 100 deaths. This led to the passage of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938.