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TIL EINSTEIN once declared that his second greatest idea after the theory of relativity was to add an egg while cooking soup in order to produce a soft-boiled egg without having an extra pot to wash.

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R5RD1 TIL about the first Crowdfunded Indian movie Manthan (Hindi), which was about the dairy cooperative pioneer Verghese Kurien who started the "White revolution" in India. The film was entirely funded by 500,000 dairy farmers each contributing Rs 2, showing the success of "collective might".
M774b TIL that the disappearance of D. B. Cooper remains the only unsolved air piracy case in commerical aviation history.
kJkGW TIL about the 1980 Sunshine Skyway bridge disaster in St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. The original bridge collapsed when it was struck by the freighter MV Summit Venture. 35 people died, including passengers on a Greyhound Bus.
y0gl TIL in the 1989 season, Deion Sanders became the only person in the history of Earth to score a home run in the MLB in the same week as scoring a touchdown in the NFL. He is also the only person to have ever participated in both a World Series and the Super Bowl.
44Mw TIL that in 2000, Nintendo gave away free sports gloves to the owners of the Original Mario Party because so many players were cutting open their palms on the rotating joystick mini-games.