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TIL that Jet Tila made the world's largest stir fry.

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KOEr4 TIL On a visit to Manchester, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin insisted that the roof stay down on his convertible car despite the pouring rain, stating "If all these people have turned out to welcome me and can stand in the rain, so can I."
m10VY TIL about Glacier Girl, a WWII P-38 fighter that had to make an emergency landing on the Greenland ice. The plane became buried under more than 200 feet of solid ice, but was recovered 50 years later and restored to flying condition.
0wYp TIL: Despite having many more lucrative offers, Charles Bukowski stayed with the same publisher his entire career because, “They took a chance on an unknown writer, and I am forever grateful.”
077M TIL that Michael Jackson would beatbox all the parts of his songs to the musicians for them to perform
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