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TIL: A Single Watermelon Once Sold For $6100
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KY914
TIL: Rock band Limp Bizkit played on the World Trade Center and received a Thank You letter from the WTC on Sept 10, 2001.
YjBP
TIL that while planning his comeback in Las Vegas in 2007, Michael Jackson wanted to build a 50 foot tall robot replica of himself that would roam the desert under the flight paths of incoming planes, shooting lasers out of its eyes in order to get the attention of the tourists flying into the city.
rNyZ4
TIL (Actually at least yesterday) about obelisks, which form their own distinct phylogenetic group and whose genetic code doesn't share features with any other life form
d8Zdr
TIL of the SS Pacific, a trans-Atlantic steamer that disappeared on a routine voyage between Liverpool and New York in 1856. In 1861, a message in a bottle released by a doomed passenger describing the ship sinking due to icebergs washed ashore in the Hebrides- solving the mystery.
JrW8
TIL If you ate at a new restaurant every day, it would take 44 years to try every restaurant in New York City.