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TIL The rings of Saturn are only about 10 meters thick

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8a7W8 TIL of a huge sunken land-mass in the Pacific Ocean, dubbed Zealandia. It was spied from space, and scientists favor it being formally recognized as the 8th continent, of which New Zealand is it's only visible portion.
vM1K TIL In 1993, Dateline NBC strapped model rocket engines to GM trucks for a televised crash-test so the trucks would explode on impact. After a GM lawsuit, three producers were fired and the reporter demoted.
8aDaL TIL that a cat named Orlando once beat financial experts in an investing competition by randomly throwing a toy mouse on a grid of numbers that each correspond to different companies
OGno6 TIL that Harper Goff designed much of the original Disneyland, sets for classic films (Casablanca, Captain Blood, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), and the submarines in Fantastic Voyage and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Captain Nemo’s baroque Nautilus helped inspire the Steampunk movement.
K0LE TIL the US version of 1 vs 100 did a special “Battle of the Sexes” episode with 1 woman vs 100 men and 1 man vs 100 women. The woman contestant was eliminated at $50k, the man became the show’s first (and only) million dollar winner.