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TIL Terry from 'Wayne's World' is also Tobias Beecher from 'Oz.'

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d81M9 TIL There are "penetration parties" which involve an all day event of many men, many in pairs or a circle, dedicated to safe cracking
Qr8L TIL that there is an area in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where no longer needed spacecraft are and have been routinely deposited. It is known as the “Spacecraft cemetery”, and notably it is also the place where the defunct Mir space station rests.
1aXO4 TIL that being optimistic lower your chance of suffering from sleep disorders and insomnia
9RBG TIL that the color orange was named after the fruit. Before that, the color was typically referred to as “yellow-red”, leading to many orange things being described as “red”, such as red hair, red deer, and robin redbreast.
grn57 TIL that the state of Michigan rejected more than 21,000 custom license plates over the past decade for being “offensive” - and you can read them all because providing everything in the system was the only way to fulfill a FOIA request for 1 year of rejections since the system “can’t sort by date”