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TIL on 2009 Stephen Hawking held a party open to all, but only publicized the party after it was over so that only time-travellers would know to attend; as expected, nobody showed up to the party.

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0w16R TIL People Used to Send Children Through the US Mail
aMGy TIL Jim Carrey sucked on Shannon Wirrey’s real boob which had milk in them in “Me, Myself & Irene”. He felt so humiliated that he had to clear the set before each take.
4XWg TIL Samuel R. Caldwell (February 11, 1880 - June 24, 1941) was the first person convicted of selling marijuana under the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, according to federal files.
0wwnL Hard to know, says Will Harcourt- Smith, an expert on early-human fossils at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
GYGeJ TIL that sound velocities in Moon rocks are much lower than in any Earth rocks but surprisingly similar to many types of Earth cheese