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TIL that the first looping “roller coaster” was tested with sandbags, monkeys, flowers, eggs and glasses of water before allowing humans on.

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e0dnk TIL that in The Simpsons universe, Gerald R. Ford lives across the street from the Simpson family.
p1vO TIL that Joe Son, an actor who played Random Task in Austin Powers, is currently serving a life sentence without parole
e0rk6 TIL that scientists have discovered the "loneliest whale in the world," who travels alone and cannot communicate with other whales
nlpY TIL in England you can invoke the Ancient Lights law, which forbids your neighbor from constructing anything that deprives your property of illumination
VBX1D TIL in a cave near Nazareth, archeologists found a skeleton of a 13 year old boy with with deer horns that had been placed on his chest. The cave was dated to be around 92,000 years old.