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TIL the day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers.

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gdD9 TIL; During the entire Irish Potato Famine (1845-1852), rich landowners exported 30-50 shiploads of food per day, while more than 1 million people starved to death.
wo0rP TIL inventor Yoshiro Nakamatsu holds 3,377 patents (e.g. the floppy disk). He finds inspiration by going on long underwater swims while holding his breath as long as he can "to starve the brain of oxygen." Then at "0.5 seconds before death" he jots down his idea on a waterproof notepad & surfaces.
yP4X TIL there are DVDs that look and smell like pizza when you are done watching them.
1kJW TIL that Hulk is basically indestructible and stacked with superpowers such as breathing underwater, surviving in space, resistant to solar temperatures, and extreme regenerability.
E4W0 TIL Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes were fired from a cannon on top of a double-thumbed fist clutching a peyote button while Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” played. There were also fireworks and the whole thing was funded by Johnny Depp.