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TIL there are daytime fireworks.

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xVpmw TIL In Denmark if you are unmarried on your 25th birthday friends play a prank by blasting one with cinnamon. On your 30th birthday the cinnamon gets upgraded to pepper. Danes sometimes add eggs to the mix because it “helps with adhesion.”
mxm8v TIL that the scientific name of the protein Titin is 189,819 letters long and would take about 3.5 hours to read outloud
R5LpQ TIL The Dark Side of the Rainbow is the pairing of the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon with the film The Wizard of Oz. This produces numerous moments of apparent synchronicity where the film and the album appear to correspond. Members of Pink Floyd denied any intent to connect them.
rRoGW TIL Charles-Henri Sanson, official executioner of France from 1778-1795, who executed 2918 people - including King Louis XVI - with his own hand, intended for his eldest son to inherit his position, but that son died in 1792 after slipping off a scaffold as he displayed a severed head to the crowd
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