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TIL on the day Judy Garland died, there was a tornado in Kansas

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XRV8 TIL that Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist from San Diego, avoided a traffic fine by publishing a paper called The Proof of Innocence, for which he was also awarded a special prize of $400.
vxnj TIL that Billiards directly contributed to the invention of plastic since ivory was too expensive for billiard balls
J1Avj TIL that Saturn is the only planet in our solar system with an average density that is less than water. So, it could float in a bathtub if such a colossal thing existed.
OVpe TIL that two black men, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, have been in solitary confinement in Louisiana for over 40 years despite despite lack of evidence for their alleged crime.
j6xwR TIL That Michael Flatley aka “The Lord of The Dance” wrote, produced, directed and starred in ‘Blackbird’, a widely panned 2018 spy thriller.