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bMXE TIL in 1992, a team of game developers used a white puffball as a placeholder graphic while they designed their game’s protagonist. They grew fond of the puffball, and decided to keep him rather than replace him with a real character. He became the iconic character Kirby.
ax5A TIL Poon Kim holds the record for surviving adrift in a life raft at 133 days in 1942-43. When told no one had ever survived longer on a raft at sea, he replied, “I hope no one will ever have to break that record.”
jNYQj TIL there is an annual tradition at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station where after the last flight of the season leaves (after which they're stuck for a few months), the crew holds a movie night where they watch all three film adaptations of "The Thing"
0dEVM TIL the the longest running scientific experiment is the pitch drop experiment that started in 1927
XEBDQ TIL Steve Martin leaked his own rider, which includes a roasted chicken to use as a dancing puppet, a pair of swim trunks in case there is a pool onstage, and a booklet called "How to Make Money From the Banjo". (The booklet must be more than two pages long.)