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TIL IMAX Movie platter weights 250kg (550lb).

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OW81 TIL of James William Boyd, a Confederate soldier who disappeared. It has been theorized that he was John Wilkes Booth’s decoy after Lincoln was assassinated.
PY0Jg TIL DNA testing showed Subway Sandwiches' chicken was only 50% meat, the rest was soy. The testing was done at a University forensic lab. Subway vehemently denied the data.
P1ZkG TIL that skatole, one of the many foul-smelling chemicals responsible for the odor of feces, will instead have a pleasant, flowery smell in very low concentrations is a major contributor to the smell of jasmine and orange blossoms.
nxY TIL that HeLa, the oldest human cell line used in scientific research, is derived from cervical cancer cells of a patient in 1951 and is so self-persistent that it is considered by some to be its own species.
Eg8xX TIL Canadian undercover officers posed as teen girls to catch a disgraced officer who flashed them while driving around private girls schools in Vancouver