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TIL Ashton Kutcher holds a Guinness World Record as the first person to gain 1 million followers on Twitter.

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oR1bo TIL There's a "Museum of Failure" in Sweden which highlights 150+ failed products. It's meant to show that innovation requires risk-taking and failure.
R779 TIL Scientists have actually performed “succesful” head/brain transplants. “When the newly attached monkey woke up, he tried to bite off the finger of an attending doctor, and everyone cheered.”
BrynL TIL of 'elysis', a new smelting process for aluminum that releases oxygen instead of carbon dioxide. This new production process both cuts operating costs by 15% and increases production by 15%. Apple has invested $11 million in the venture behind it and is offering technical support.
8ekw4 TIL that newborns can sleep up to 16-17 hours a day, but in short bursts.
MeA1A TIL of Hellfire Clubs, 18th century social clubs, extant in UK, where men and women gathered to perform socially unacceptable actions while simultaneously mocking religion, satirically, in a time when it was blasphemous to do so.