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W7yMY TIL in Korea, snack sausage sales increased by 40% during winter of 2010 from people using them as styluses on their touched screen phones without taking off their gloves.
4Xlo5 TIL about the AN-225, the largest aircraft built.Powered by six turbofan engines and with a wingspan almost the length of a football field, this gentle giant of the skies can carry bigger and heavier cargo than any other plane, and is unique in the world of aviation, as just one was ever built.
VB5kp TIL the narrator of Gold Rush, Paul Christie, was also the voice of Moose A. Moose on Noggin in the early 2000s (among many other voice acting roles).
8Opa TIL that three 17th century Qing dynasty era vases valued at 500,000 pounds were shattered at a Cambridge museum when a visitor descending a staircase tripped on his shoelace and fell into them.
XEKKD TIL in 1967 a three way battle erupted in Laos as Burmese militia, remnants of Chinese Nationalist armies and the Royal Loa Army each attempted to capture a mule train carrying 16 tons of opium. The Loatian forces emerged victorious and later peddled the heroin to US troops in Vietnam.