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TIL The Large Hadron Collider created the one of the densest materials known to man. A a cubic centimeter of it would weigh 40 billion tons.

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4Znw TIL The remains of an 18th-century ship were found in 2010 while excavating the Wolrd Trade Center site
yVQow TIL the founder of Reuters News Agency, Paul Rauter, signed a 1872 contract with the Shah of Iran where Paul gained private control over Iran's roads, telegraphs, mills, factories, and other public works. Lord Curzon claimed it was the most control a person has ever gained over a country's resources
yQAm8 TIL of Herman Perry, an African-American WWII soldier who killed an officer and escaped into the Burmese jungle. Black soldiers were treated harshly and he had already been confined before. He won over and lived with a Naga tribe before he was found, then escaped again, then caught again and hung.
VBKbk TIL in 2012 two drunk tourists stole a penguin named Dirk from an aquarium after they broke into the SeaWorld in Queensland, Australia. The next day they released him into a canal but were spotted by locals, who reported them. Both were fined £637.
94ym TIL the Georgia state legislature once debated the regulation of alligator rides, until someone pointed out that the bill called for regulating the sale of alligator hides.