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TIL The Most Popular Song Played At British Funerals is Monty Python's “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life”

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6wO8 TIL spray paint used to cake up in automobile factories to such a degree that it could be cut, polished, and set in jewelry. The resulting stone is known as “Fordite” or “Motor Agate”
9Y0JD TIL Produce grows freakishly large in Alaska...like, freakishly large.
QNvNe TIL that Samuel Howes Caldwell invented autocorrect in 1959. He did so specifically for Chinese speakers, even though he didn't speak the language, so that they could use Western keyboards.
EPyo TIL in 2007 The Pirate Bay attempted to buy their own country, Sealand, to attempt to gain immunity from various copyright acts.
oB4GA TIL Richard Nixon could have used his birthright as a Quaker to avoid the draft, but chose to enlist anyway.