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TIL from which types of cosmic events elements come from

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XEBZD TIL of the 'Battle of Brisbane' (1942), a standoff between American soldiers and Australian citizens leading to one death and hundreds of injured on both sides. The reports were censored to preserve wartime morale.
x6Xao TIL in the movie Arachnophobia, the largest spider was a bird-eating spider they named Big Bob, after Robert Zemekis. Big Bob was adopted by a crew member named Jamie Hyneman, who went on to host Mythbusters. The little ones were controlled using a hairdryer and lemon pledge spray.
NX516 TIL On May 3, 2008 Estonian activists organized themselves as an ad hoc community to clean up the country's 10,000 tons of waste in a single day! This is a shining example of the power of community action.
WNZ4 TIL A 16 year-old girl raped a 12 year-old boy, got pregnant, and then the Kansas Supreme Court found the boy liable for child support
Z8XL4 TIL that The New York Times Best Seller list is made up by editors and has nothing to do with the actual number of books sold