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TIL: Macaulay Culkin's middle name is Macaulay Culkin

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nW89d TIL the scheduled, 1.7-mile flight between Westray and Papa Westray in Scotland is only 2 minutes, but it can be as short 47 seconds depending on wind conditions
Re8Q TIL that 7 schools in New York City look exactly the same, apparently because they only had money for 1 set of blueprints.
M71x7 TIL some bacteria evolved a needle-like structure for injecting other cells with special proteins. Type III secretion system , as it is called, is still poorly understood and we don't fully know how bacteria make them and how the needle itself works.
xVjDB TIL the founder of Tootsie Rolls, Leo Hirshfield, committed suicide after being ousted from his own company. He'd created it to be an affordable chocolate-tasting candy that would not melt in the heat. He named them after his daughter Clara "Tootsie" Hirshfield.
6V4m TIL - Nicolas Cage turned down the role of Aragorn in The Fellowship of the Ring, due to “family obligations”.