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TIL of 'Soul of the Earth' by Rafael Trénor--an earth sized sculpture forming the concept of a cube within the earth with the 8 corners poking out on/near land, will be the largest sculpture on earth when the final vertex is finished in Spain.

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epkoJ TIL fine particles of dust can explode and rapidly combust, even innocuous objects like flour or corn starch, due to the very large surface area of dust relative to its mass. One incident at a "color party" throwing colored corn starch resulted in 15 dead and 498 suffering from burns.
newRG TIL of Randy Gardner, a 17 year-old high school student from San Diego who set the record for the longest time a human has gone without sleep (11 days, 25 min). Gardner's experimental analysis found paranoia, hallucinations, loss of concentration, and being unable to count backwards from 100.
kbMe TIL a woman named Jean Hilliard survived a severe 6 hours freezing. She was transported to Hospital where doctors said her skin was too hard to pierce with a hypodermic needle and her body temperature was too low to register on a thermometer.
D1Rke TIL: The original drummer of The Offspring became a medical doctor. During a malpractice lawsuit against him he saved a jurors life causing a mistrial by tainted jury pool
EgEE7 TIL that when slavery was abolished in the French colonies in 1848, the native population of the largest island in Madagascar rebelled against the French government because they were heavily involved in the slave trade.