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TIL It's ridiculously hard to get an accurate measurement of a coastline that all will agree on.

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pXdN TIL James Cameron pitched the movie Titanic to the movie studios so that they would fund his diving expedition; not because he wanted to make the movie.
J1Vkj TIL kitchen sponges are "microbial incubators" and cannot be effectively sterilized outside of laboratory conditions
R59ba TIL about the Diprotodon – the largest marsupial ever. It weighed up to 3,500 kg (close to an Asian elephant), looked like some capybara on steroids and was likely driven to extinction by humans some 40,000 years ago
EgBrP TIL that Dolly Parton secretly coproduced Buffy the Vampire Slayer through her company, Sandollar Entertainment. As an easter egg, she and Buffy share the same birthday, which is today, January 19
x6rW0 TIL the legendary “DJ, turn it up!” in Ke$ha’s We R Who We R was totally improvised. Benny Blanco, the producer got super high, passed out for 24 hours, woke up in a panic with 30 minutes to deadline, and just slapped it on because Ke$ha had already left.