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TIL After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on the planet

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8vMa TIL Bill Nye “the science guy” got his break in entertainment by winning a steve martin lookalike contest.
8aXk8 TIL that Wilbur Wright (the older of the Wright Brothers) got his teeth knocked out at age 18, changing the course of his future. The boy who knocked his teeth out, Oliver Cook Haugh, grew up to become a notorious Midwest serial killer.
9wgxp TIL that in 2018, David McNamara, a football/soccer referee in the Women's Super League in England, was suspended by the Football Association for using Rock Paper Scissors to determine a kickoff after he had realized he had forgotten the coin used for the coin toss.
A1MB TIL The Iconic “Do you know where you are?! You’re in the Jungle Baby!” line was actually yelled at Axl Rose by a Homeless man in New York
9e0M TIL on one of its first test flights, the Boeing 787 spent 19 hours and 2/3rds of the United States drawing the number 787 and the Boeing logo.