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TIL a Tennessee man once had his bond raised to $14 million after daring a judge to raise his bond

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PYQZ TIL that there are three underwater rock formations in the Bahamas that are made of roughly rectangular limestone blocks and look like straight roads.
v1Q6K TIL a peregrine falcon was clocked at 242 mph in a dive. A trained falcon kept pace with a skydiver, and that was as fast as the skydiver could go.
epgRJ TIL that microwaves heat food by doing it's best to twist the molecules to align with the wave, OR IN SHORT: food is trying to magnetize itself.
pvrZ TIL In Futurama, Bender’s apartment number is 00100100. This is a binary representation of the ASCII character “$”.
rmQ0 TIL there is a tribe in India that has passed down for generations the art of manipulating tree roots to create a system of “living” bridges.