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TIL that small icebergs are called “bergy bits”

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VBQJm TIL: The Atari rat mascot from the mid 1970s named "Big Cheese" (aka "Rick Rat") just so happens to be the very same mouse mascot used by the arcade/restaurant franchise "Chuck E. Cheese".
gagD TIL actor Charles Durning, was in the first wave of troops to land on D-Day and the lone survivor of his unit, received eight stab wounds from a Nazi soldier, whom he killed with a rock in hand-to-hand combat, died 12/24 at age 89 [/r/tsis]
lD17 TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure in the world until the year 1300. The building that replaced it collapsed, so from 1549 to 1884 the tallest structure in the world was not the tallest ever.
OjvL TIL the actor who played Max and Dani’s dad in Hocus Pocus, Charles Rocket, was found dead in a field with his throat cut in 2005. His death was ruled a suicide.
4kdVR TIL about the “big Bang” guns made out of a 4.5B year meteorite and sold for $4.5M