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TIL: The cleaning solution, 409, is called '409' because it took 409 tries to get the formula right

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e0rJJ TIL that astronomers have discovered a massive black hole with a huge appetite. Each day, the black hole named J2157 consumes gas and dust equivalent to the mass of the Sun, making it the fastest-growing black hole in the universe.
nrdB TIL A budgie named Puck is listed in the Guinness World Book of Records as “The bird with the largest vocabulary in the world ” with a vocabulary of 1728 words. Also he wouldn’t just mimic, he would often create his own phrases and sentences.
yl4V TIL chewing gum is primarily made of rubber and plastic.
N77WJ TIL in 2014 a man in South Africa was transporting 2 giraffes in an open trailer. While going under an overpass, one of the giraffes hit its head on the overpass and died, due to head trauma. Thankfully, the other survived.
1a4n4 TIL: About Andy Warhol's failed assassin, Valeri Solanas. A radical who called for the elimination of the male sex to create a Utopia for women. She shot Warhol in the liver, spleen, lungs, and stomach and he was required to wear a corset for the rest of his life.