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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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Qybk TIL Chex Cereal Made a Chex Themed First Person Shooter in the 90’s. Two sequels were made.
gJNy TIL that in 1995, only 7% of China’s urban residents had a refrigerator. By 2007, this number had jumped to 95%.
GLd1 TIL There is an episode of The Cosby Show, where after consuming Cosby’s “special barbecue sauce”, women stop fighting, become passive, and become more affectionate towards their lovers.
nWrRG TIL about the "hand of glory" made from the hand of a hanged man. Europeans once made candles from the fat of the corpse of a criminal and placed it in the hand of glory, believing it would render motionless all persons to whom it was presented
QmXa TIL that the scene in Terminator 2: Judgement Day where a helicopter flies under an overpass was not CGI, it was stunt performed by helicopter pilot Chuck Tamburro. The stunt was so dangerous that the film crew refused to film it, so James Cameron had to film the sequence himself.