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TIL that MythBusters accidentally made an explosive so powerful that they destroyed the footage and alerted the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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QJDl6 TIL L Ron Hubbard’s first wife once discovered two love letters the Scientology founder had written, to two different women, in the couple’s outgoing mail. She switched the envelopes and sent them.
rRgbd TIL Nik Wallenda was the first person in over a century to cross the Niagara falls on a tightrope, which required two years of work to get a special dispensation, costed over a million dolars, and had to carry with him his passport to present it when he arrived at the Canadian side.
oB4NY TIL that the purpose of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" was to help young girls accept arranged marriages.