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TIL there is a show on TLC where people design wedding dresses made entirely out of toilet paper.

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GoNj TIL that Creed’s 2009 reunion tour sold so little tickets that some venues cut ticket prices to only 75 cents.
X0D7P TIL of the Spartathlon, a 246 kilometer race between Athens and modern-day Sparta. It is based on the run of Pheidippides, who in 490 BC ran from Athens to Sparta before the Battle of Marathon in a day and a half to seek aid against the Persians.
7K0b TIL we had to make the undersea cables that carry the internet shark-proof.
N7VlQ TIL Fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuates vibration. That´s why it gets so quite when it snows.
KYm99 TIL Loblaws and George Weston Limited agreed to pay $500 million to settle the bread price-fixing lawsuit in Canada.