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TIL the official crown of the Prince of Wales was made using a gold-plated ping-pong ball as the central orb

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gvY4 TIL that, statistically speaking, Kansas is actually FLATTER than a pancake.
AR9x TIL the first 3D platformer was initially called “Sonic’s Ass” because the devs figured you’d see the main character from behind a lot. The game was later released as “Crash Bandicoot”
naDb TIL… In 1977, a 23-year old graduate student stumbled upon a compound with effects similar to heroin. He made a bunch and shared it with his friends to get high, except the batch he made was contaminated with a toxic byproduct that left them all with debilitating Parkinson’s Disease within a week.
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