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TIL our Masseter Muscles are strong enough to bite through cinder blocks and hand cuffs, but our teeth would break.

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7b9X TIL in 2001 Pizza Hut paid the Russian space agency to send a pizza to the International Space Station at the cost of $1 million
AN01g TIL CBS was fined $272,000 because Young Sheldon misused the Emergency Alert System tone signals in an episode showing a tornado warning, which is illegal to use outside a real warning, and since the EAS was made in 1997 while Young Sheldon takes place in the early 90s, this usage was anachronistic
8eJ0V TIL Levitt & Sons was an industry leader in building mass-production housing. They sold for $90M in 1964 but filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2007.
gMAP9 TIL that the Southern Baptist Church formed in 1844 when Baptists living in the south opposed the efforts of Baptists living in the north to prevent missionaries from owning slaves. So they formed the Southern Baptist church, a church that explicitly allowed slavery.
4ED5 TIL a man deposited a junk promotional check as a joke at his bank and they accepted it, putting $95K into his account.