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TIL magnetic liquids could be used to clean up oil spills
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TIL that when a metaphor stops needing its imagery to be understood and becomes idiomatic ("footage", "fly off the handle", "blow off steam"), it is considered "dead".
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TIL It is thought that the first vibrator may have been made by Cleopatra, by filling a tube with bees.
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TIL that the 2002 TV film It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie has the Twin Towers standing in an alternate reality where an angel shows Kermit the Frog what the world would be like had he never been born.
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TIL that despite making dozens of recordings of his voice on wax cylinders, no known recordings of Mark Twain's voice are known to have survived.
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TIL There are five bigger bed sizes than Super King. They are Eastern King, Emperor, Super Emperor, Caesar and the biggest, Super Caesar.