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TIL South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have no memory of making the episode “Sexual Harassment Panda” due to the fact they were so exhausted and hungover from making the South Park movie

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J1PJk TIL a large percentage of the drugs smuggled across the US border are smuggled by addicted people or others in financial hardship, who are paid little but need the money to sustain their lives. Some carry fentanyl pills inside their body that can easily kill them if accidentally absorbed.
Y7D0G TIL - The longest word in any language is the chemical name for the protein Titin, also known as connectin, which has 189,819 letters? The word takes over three hours to pronounce in its entirety, and it would take more than 2,000 pages to write it out by hand.
KOOW4 TIL that the official definition of 1 second is based on a quantum mechanical phenomenon, namely "the duration of 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a Caesium 133 atom's outermost electron"
nemMG TIL Harper Lee and Truman Capote were childhood friends who wrote together after school. To Kill a Mockingbird’s character Dill is based on Capote. Lee was an “assistant researchist” for Capote to help write his book In Cold Blood. Both of them spent two months conducting interviews for the book.
vNyB TIL that the inventor of Linux announced his project by saying “I’m doing a free operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional)”. Today it it used by ¾ of all servers, all Android devices, and the top 10 supercomputers.