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TIL After filming Child's Play, original Chucky animatronic was stripped and re-used as the Crypt Keeper

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egDk TIL that geomagnetic storms are correlated with an increase in suicide all over the world
wrk7 TIL Tomatoes are picked green and ripened by exposing them to Ethylene gas. This gas changes their color to red, but does not change their flavor, leaving them bland.
PYl0n TIL of the concept of Yūgen (幽玄) an important concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics that doesn't have an English equivalent. It is said to mean "a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe ... and the sad beauty of human suffering".
9wgP7 TIL That at the time of his death, the inventor of kitty litter was worth about a hundred million dollars (or $849 million today, adjusted for inflation).
P17xL TIL there's a jetty in Australia that's so long that one end is 2m higher than the other due to the curvature of the Earth