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TIL arXiv is pronounced "archive", not "ark sieve", because the X represents the Greek letter chi

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Xd48 TIL that in 2005 a Boeing engineer known as Mr. Hands died after receiving anal from a horse and subsequently rupturing his colon back before bestiality was a felony in Washington state
a88Ly TIL that the United States has offered to purchase Greenland from Denmark twice, once in 1946 and again in 2019 due to its strategic location in the Arctic, the U.S. also occupied the island during WW2 from 1940-45 after the fall of Denmark and constructed Thule Air Base.
r88y TIL In his infamous movie, The Room, Tommy Wiseau originally wanted there to be a plotline in which it is revealed that Johnny is a vampire. This would include a scene where Johnny’s car would start to fly from the rooftop into the night sky.
9Y1OM TIL Melissa Joan Hart was 20 when she started Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
kOL57 TIL that a group of pandas is called an embarrassment