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TIL that the teeth of the sea snail is the strongest biological material discovered to date

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wLbP TIL that Scarlett Johansson insisted on going topless for the movie “The Island,” but Michael Bay wouldn’t allow it.
78D0X TIL The question asked by The Beatles in "Eleanor Rigby" (1966) -- "All the lonely people, where do they all come from? / All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" -- inspired the band America to write an encouraging, uplifting response with the song "Lonely People" (1974).
XD0j TIL that ~47% of Italians are functionally illiterate
kgx5 TIL bodybuilding was banned in China in 1953.
5VKdn TIL that the gunfight between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt in 1865 is one of the few one-on-one gun duels of the Western conquest that occured as depicted in dime novels and westerns such as High Noon or the Dollar Trilogy.