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TIL: That the 11/4/1954 is 'The most boring day in history'.

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nKXB TIL Lego blocks are so strong that it would take a stack of 375,000 bricks to cause the bottom brick to collapse, which represents a stack 3,591 meters (11,781 ft) in height.
DYmD TIL that on Saturn’s moon Titan, mountain ranges are named after mountains & characters from JRR Tolkien’s Middle-Earth.
vPPWD TIL Our Sun can make a total of 80 different elements: helium and then everything from carbon through polonium, but nothing heavier. For that, you need a supernova or a neutron star collision. Of all the types of naturally occurring elements here on Earth, the Sun can make about 90% of them.
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Z8gWB TIL that, in 1973, America’s Army Material Command (AMC) ran a competition to name it’s new building. After receiving over 500 entries, a jury selected the winner: “AMC Building”