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TIL that Peter Jackson has a hobbit hole under his house, and Danny DeVito goes to visit him on a regular basis.

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xVdO5 TIL Paper Strength is measured in Kilometers, as a way to describe if a sheet of that paper measured that long would be vertically hung, it would tear on its own weight. That is to say, if a paper has strength of 14 Kilometers, a 14 Km long sheet would have to be vertically hung for it to tear.
N7OBM TIL there’s an exoplanet with rings 200 times larger than Saturn’s.
aQx9 TIL that in 1996, a three year old boy fell into the gorilla exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo. The child was rescued by a mother gorilla who cradled him until the zookeepers arrived.
ADWeo TIL contact lenses were first proposed by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1508. He described a method of directly altering corneal power by either submerging the head in a bowl of water or wearing a water-filled glass hemisphere over the eye.
p8dQZ TIL The apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity is still alive and producing fruit.