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wV16 TIL That a massive clock, hundreds of feet tall, is currently being constructed inside a mountain in East Texas. It’s designed to withstand the test of time and expected to tick uninterrupted for over 10,000 years.
7rpMx TIL Jurors at a double-murder trial in 1994 used an Ouija board to contact the victims spirits - who told them the man was guilty. The conviction was later quashed for a re-trial.
5AAD TIL that the beer drunk during the filming of the Hobbit was custom made by New Zealand brewers. It was a 1% dark stout called “Sobering Thought”.
yVoJa TIL that TGI Fridays banned “flair” because of the movie Office Space.
4XX7o TIL the only bloodshed in the Anglo-Swedish war occured when a Swedish general killed 30 Swedish farmers for refusing to fight.