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TIL The Earth gets about one pound heavier every second due to absorbing meteoroids and other space debris

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LkGBr TIL That the leading theory behind disappearance of the Malaysian airlines flight MH370 was that it was a murder suicide orchestrated by the pilot who was suffering from a bout of depression.
nWElP TIL the first elevator shaft was built in The Cooper Union - four years before the first passenger elevator was even built
kJw54 TIL bully sticks are just dried bull penises
LAkd TIL Author J.D. Salinger stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and carried a work in progress with him which would later become “Catcher in the Rye”
loBM1 TIL of the Halfway to Hell Club, a exclusive club reserved only for workers who built the Golden Gate Bridge who fell off the bridge and was saved by the nets spread under it.