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TIL An American NASA scientist has been in solitary confinement in Turkey for over eight months, the evidence against him being one US dollar bill.

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mxMro TIL: An artist named Howard Hallis has spent the last decade painting a massive picture of literally everything.
WkpVo TIL the Planter's Peanut Man's full name is Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe.
kJO4m TIL that chocolate is crystalline and therefore has six phases (different ways of arranging crystals). This is important for the production of glossy, brittle, melt-in-mouth-not-in-hand tempered chocolate.
VkQB TIL that Canada has a more powerful military than North Korea
9YalX TIL the 1996 video game "Tomb Raider" had a fan-made patch called "Nude Raider" that made Lara naked. The video game publisher got the site hosting the patch shut down. In the sequel, the developers included a secret code that would allegedly make her naked, but it in fact made Lara explode.