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TIL Gold can be created in a laboratory, but it is dangerously radioactive.

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xYG5 TIL that Po, the smallest Teletubby, is 6 ft. 6 in., while Tinky-Winky looms around 10 ft. tall. Though onscreen the Fab Four appear to be a baby-friendly size, in ‘person’ they are gargantuan, bigger than Barney, bigger even than Big Bird.
GmKJ TIL that in 2003, two men stole a Boeing 727 from an Angolan airport, never to be seen again.
rRW7y TIL that in the 1870s margarine, the economical rival to butter, was mandated in New Hampshire to be dyed pink in order to help dairy farmers. The reasoning: nobody would buy pink margarine.