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TIL, a Canadian sports executive named Jack Hamilton identified 136 different types of wood in a guessing competition?

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Z8rgB TIL that, during the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill was so impressed with the brandy produced by the Yerevan Brandy Company that he asked Joseph Stalin to send him several cases annually
781xL TIL the greatest recorded temperature change in a 24 hour period is 103 degrees. On January 15, 1972 the temperature in Loma, Montana went from -54 to 49 degrees.
Zpxkp TIL about Roy Sullivan, a man who had been struck by lightning 7 times and had kept a water bucket in his car due to his hair catching fire after being struck. He used the bucket on multiple occasions.
yQo08 TIL before the filming of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, director Alfonso Cuarón had Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson write essays about their characters. Watson turned in a 16 page essay, Radcliffe gave a single page, and Grint forgot to turn his in.
p8418 TIL that the "boiling frog fable" - the premise that a frog suddenly put into boiling water will jump out, but if put into tepid water which is then slowly brought to a boil, will cook to death - is false: a frog that is gradually heated WILL jump out