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TIL The world’s largest Chocolate Easter egg was created in Italy in 2011. It stood over 34 feet tall and weighed more than 15,000 pounds—even taller than a giraffe. It was made entirely of chocolate and set a Guinness World Record for the tallest chocolate Easter egg ever made

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BgXoe TIL an early Fax machine was demonstrated at the 1851 World's fair and the first commercial telefax service was in 1865, 11 years before the telephone.
DQdBV TIL Actor Dermot Mulroney is also an accomplished cellist and has played on many of Michael Giacchino's film soundtracks, including Rogue One, Jurassic World, and Spider-Man: Homecoming
d8LOd TIL The South's first police force was created for the preservation of slavery " Some of the primary policing institutions there were the slave patrols tasked with chasing down runaways and preventing slave revolts,".
M4Z8 TIL The Spindle, the iconic car sculpture seen at the beginning of Waynes World, was dismantled in 2008 to build a Walgreens
XEbmD TIL that many European celebrities, including Holywood actors Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, George Segals, were stranded in Czechoslovakia when the Warsaw Pact nations invaded in 1968