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TIL: Somebody made a 10-hour movie titled "Paint Drying".

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VM0kB TIL in 1944, 3 B-29 bombers made emergency landings in USSR. Stalin ordered his engineers to clone them. A small hole was found on the left wing of the captured B-29 which was probably drilled by mistake. So, a very small unnecessary hole, made with the thinnest drill, appeared on all Tu-4 bombers.
p84rA TIL about the marathon monks who run/walk a double olympic marathon (52.5 miles) each day for 100 consecutive days, in a quest for enlightenment.
VMdZ0 TIL Matthew Perry lost the tip of his middle finger as a child “due to an unfortunate door-shutting accident”
kNNW TIL that Marcionites, an early Christian sect, believed that the god of the Old Testament was a separate entity from the god of the NT, and that the physical world was his evil creation.
16vdV Today I learned about Jean-Marie Loret, the alleged illegitimate son of Adolf Hilter.