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TIL a man named Mani Manithan walked backwards for 25+ years to promote world peace

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yVL4p TIL That in 1984 Motorhead played so loud that the ceiling of the venue they were playing cracked and the plaster started to come off leading the show to being cancelled
eOXb TIL: Loneliness can be just as deadly as smoking cigarettes, it is considered a serious life threatening health condition.
Rxk9 TIL there is the machine which consists of twelve pairs of worms and gears. The input gear makes 4 revolutions in a minute and the output gear thus makes 1 revolution in 2.3 trillion years and is embedded in a block of solid concrete. This machine represents time frames astrophysicist deal with.
oBWe8 TIL an American man who made a fortune off the newly invented typewriter, built a mansion on Carleton Island in New York state in 1895. After the property was bult, he spent one night in it and then died of a heart attack. The mansion has now been empty for almost 100 years, yet still stands.
GZkN TIL that George RR Martin’s A Storm of Swords lost the 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novel to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. His response? “Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don’t have readers like these.”