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TIL the world’s heaviest ball of twine weighs 21K pounds and was created by a man named JFK over the last 37 years. He says that in 1979 God told him to quit drinking and turn to twine.

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xDm0 TIL that in 2005 a Texas man shot himself in the face after a bullet he fired at an armadillo ricocheted of the animal.
8aawP TIL about courtroom dogs that help children feel comfortable enough to testify against their abusers.
gMyk7 TIL of the five naked eye planets. "Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have been known since ancient times and can easily be seen with the naked eye if one knows when and where to look."
16vpX TIL that Kurt Waldheim was 'accidentally' elected UN Secretary-General in 1971, after the US, the UK, and China failed to coordinate their vetoes.
x6jpB TIL JERRY SEINFELD is 69 years old!