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TIL a message in a bottle originating from Massachusetts by a 5th grader named Ben Lyons in 1997 washed ashore last year in France and was found by Hubert Eriau. Ben's bottle was part of a class project he did while studying the ocean currents. Ben began his message with "Dear Beachcomber."

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E1aZW TIL Tiny portions of the Wright Flyer were taken to the moon and back aboard Apollo 11 in 1969. Another few were taken aboard the Challenger on it’s final flight, and recovered from the wreckage. All of these pieces are now in display in North Carolina.
xMpk TIL a group of Scientists have discovered that cheese contains a protein that the human body recognizes in a fashion similar to addictive drugs, called “casomorphins,” or “casein-derived morphine-like compounds,” prompting one researcher to refer to cheese as “dairy crack.”
RmY4 TIL that the largest building with completed construction plans is a 10,000m (33,000 ft) tower that would cost 16 trillion USD to construct with a 100-150 year construction time, but it can house 30 million people.
kYj5 TIL because of a translation error years ago, women buy men chocolate in Japan on Valentines Day…a practice that persists until today
yQ8RM TIL the shot in Jurassic Park where the cup of water vibrates, heralding the arrival of the T-Rex, was actually an extremely difficult shot to get right. They eventually got it by feeding a guitar string through the car, down to the ground and someone plucked a specific chord to get the effect.