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TIL a 10 year old girl with cancer was too sick to see Up in theaters, so Pixar flew the DVD to her house. She died that day after watching it with her mother.

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o8yY TIL a Florida-based beer company created fully edible 6-pack rings from brewing byproducts such as wheat and barley; the rings are just as strong as the plastic variety, yet completely digestible and biodegradable
XZej TIL that in 2011, two men para-glided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42min and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.
e0BLL TIL that on Apollo 15, a hammer and a feather were dropped on the surface of the moon to illustrate how objects of different weight fall at an equal rate without air resistance.
WkGmY TIL Jupiter's Great Red Spot is so loud that its soundwaves move so rapidly they heat the surroundings up nearly 700⁰F or about 370⁰C.
97B6 TIL a man stole a Salvador Dali painting in full view of security cameras in broad daylight, mailed it back to the museum a week later, and was only caught because he had shoplifted a juice bottle a year prior, allowing police to match his fingerprints on the package to those on the bottle.