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TIL The sailing stones that were inexplicably pushing themselves around and leaving trails in the desert have had their movement explained. A perfect combination of weather conditions cause huge yet thin ice sheets to push them around.

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PyoL TIL that Grant Imahara of Mythbusters volunteered to build Geoff Peterson–the gay robot skeleton sidekick on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson–if Craig got him 100K Twitter followers.
69Vjw TIL that the longest possible word in English has 189,819 letters and takes over 3 hours to pronounce.
VMJoZ TIL that if an acronym is said letter by letter, like FBI or ATM, it is called an initialism. To be a true acronym all of the letters must be said as a word, some examples are NATO, NASA and POTUS.
rNyrM TIL: Just last year in 2023 , the Great Kentucky Hoard was found, adding proof to the age old claims of lost Civil War gold caches. It consisted of verified 800 Civil War coins most of them gold. The person who discovered it hid his identity and where exactly he unearthed them.
RXGw TIL Disney parks allowed people with wheelchairs to cut in line with 6 guests, which led to the formation of a black-market where the rich could hire disabled tour guides.