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TIL The International Space Station is 357 feet end-to-end? That’s almost the same length as a football field, including both end zones.

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R7mn1 TIL about 'star jelly' or 'star snot,' a gelatinous substance sometimes found on grass or even on branches of trees. According to folklore, it is deposited on the Earth during meteor showers. Nobody is quite sure what it actually is.
nWd97 TIL that before creating the children’s character Blippi, actor Stevin John made shock videos under the name Steezy Grossman. He later used DMCA takedown notices to remove a video in which he performed the Harlem Shake on a toilet before defecating on his naked friend.
0wd4L TIL the glyptodon was a large mammal that lived in Americas until it went extinct around 8000 BCE. It looked like a cross between a beaver and an armadillo and was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
XEZJD TIL Chinese pianist Lang Lang learned to love classical music from a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon. He was just two-and-a-half years old, and was absorbed by the piece, Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody Number II, that both Tom and Jerry played on the piano
J1AA4 TIL because chick-fil-a is not open on sunday but operates at rest stops in upstate new york, there is a bill being discussed to force all future restaurants to be open 7 days a week