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TIL following the release of Fifty Shades of Grey, rope sales in hardware stores skyrocketed.

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E16Px TIL: "39 or 40" decimals of pi are enough to calculate the circumference of the observable universe within the size of the simplest known atom.
LMdZ TIL on the show “Frasier”, the guest callers on his radio show were famous personalities and celebrities, sometimes joking about their real-life problems. Most notable is David Duchovny talking about his sex addiction long before anyone knew about it.
69988 TIL that in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1984 a single yellow-headed amazone escaped from captivity, followed by a male a year later. Those two parrots have established a population of 60 birds, making them the biggest wild population of parrots in Europe
OGON6 TIL that elephants can also communicate through seismic signals - sounds that create vibrations in the ground - which they may detect through their bones.
BreyD TIL Nintendo experimented with a modem add-on for the NES that would allow Minnesota residents to play the state lottery on their NES. They also had plans to enable stock trading and online gaming. The idea was scrapped however, because it was thought it would encourage underage gambling.