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TIL: Kummakivi is a large balancing rock in Ruokolahti, Finland. The 7-metre long boulder lies on a convex bedrock surface with a very small footprint but so firmly that it cannot be rocked with human force.

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b6JBZ TIL Frances Bean Cobain (daughter of Kurt Cobain) filed for divorce from her 1st husband, Isaiah Silva, in 2016 after less than 2 years of marriage. They ended up fighting for custody of Kurt's guitar played during his MTV Unplugged performance in November 1993. The court awarded it to Silva.
KYvA6 TIL in 1952, many of Adlai Stevenson's friends and associates led a "draft Stevenson" movement to make him run for President and continued even when he told them to stop.
4kdGo TIL the only US Presidents who are alive are those born in hospitals; all who were not have passed away.
DQdnP TIL the Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation holds the record for the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster (MV Dona Paz in 1987 - 4385 dead) before having four more of its ships capsize and total at least 1461 more deaths with hundreds more missing. The shipping line still operates today.
4lyR TIL Sting took 1 million dollars to perform a private gig for the dictator of Uzbekistan - a man who boiled his enemies alive.