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TIL that the Sun’s atmosphere is hotter than the surface.
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TIL that Christopher Plummer hated The Sound of Music. He called it The Sound of Mucus or S&M. During filming, he would get drunk in taverns and ate so much schnapps and pastries, that he got very fat. His costumes had to be let out. He was also “dead drunk” during the music festival scene.
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TIL About a right wing alternative to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream- “Star Spangled Ice Cream” had flavours including “I Hate The French Vanilla” and “Small GovernMint”
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TIL in 1931 a suspension bridge was built in Maine; the construction was so far under budget that there was enough money left over to build a second bridge elsewhere.
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TIL that the artist Man Ray created an object in 1923 called Object To Be Destroyed. It survived until 1957 when a group of nihilists stole it from an exhibition and shot it. Man Ray used the resulting insurance payout to make a group of 100 replicas, called Indestructible Object.
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TIL pistol shrimp have a specialized claw that shuts to create a cavitation bubble that can kill small fish and these bubbles can reach temperatures over 8,000k which is hotter than the surface of the sun.