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TIL it took the Mythbusters team two years to find a company that would make lead foil thin enough for a lead balloon.

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R7oVl TIL as recently as the 1920s, Southern California was home to massive grizzly bears sometimes exceeding 2000 lbs. They were equaled in size only by the Kodiak bears of Alaska.
R7O6w TIL - Garfield-shaped phones have been polluting the shore of the Finistère coasts of Brittany (France) for 35 years. The reason is due to a container wedged between the rocks that is slowly pouring them into the sea.
xerk TIL PG-13 movies are allowed one non-sexual use of “fuck” per script.
ga9b TIL Brazil is the first country in the world to totally ban indoor tanning for anyone of any age.
P1Y8g TIL that because Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle's B25 took off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet to bomb Tokyo in 1942, he was honorarily authorized to wear gold Naval Aviator Wings in uniform.