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TIL that the world's largest ball of paint is in Alexandria, Indiana. The creator added a layer of paint to a baseball everyday since 1997. It is now over 14 feet wide and weighs 2.5 tons

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m1w9v TIL there has only been one instance of a submarine sinking another submarine while submerged.
R71w8 TIL I learned of the Fermi paradox, which states that if there was intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, they should have visited us by now
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RY41 TIL During WW2 the British had a plan to assassinate Hitler but didn’t go through with it as he was a terrible strategist and whoever replaced him would have been better at fighting the allies
D16ke TIL fat choy, the black moss traditionally eaten on Lunar New Years day contains a neurotoxin that is linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.