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TIL Jack Black’s mother was one of the engineers who helped design the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Rdmw TIL that WD-40 has been used remove a python snake that had coiled itself around the undercarriage of a bus, and that police officers also once used WD-40 to remove a naked burglar who was trapped in an air conditioning vent.
4X7RX TIL of the Amish subgroup called Renno Amish where the men are allowed to wear only one suspender.
5V9bQ TIL the creator of the most used drum loop sample in music history, Gregory C. Coleman, died homeless and in poverty without ever receiving royalty payments.
epme4 TIL a Wisconsin man has eaten over 30,000 Big Mac hamburgers over 46 years, averaging 2 per day. He has only missed eight days in those 46 years, including when his mother died as she requested he forgo the burger in her memory.
lov11 TIL in 1850 Milk in New York was so contaminated that caused 8000 infants deaths in just one year.