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TIL that Saturn has a hexagon on it’s north pole.

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P1m4L TIL before the modern ambulance, funeral homes used hearses to bring patients to the hospital. This is because the hearse was often the only vehicle long enough to fit a stretcher inside.
0Mlv TIL that Pedialyte is a hangover “cure”; so much so that adult consumption is up 60% since 2012 and the company has started targeting adults on “party holidays”.
bolj TIL Spongebob’s Bikini Bottom is based on the nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll during the 40’s and 50’s. Hence, radiation makes talking sponges and starfish.
l7ema TIL that Peter Jackson has a perfect replica of Bag End in his basement. You go down to the wine cellar and pull a bottle which opens a door, then there’s a long corridor into a mock torture chamber. Then you pull a book in a bookcase, the bookcase opens, and you walk into his perfect Bag End
N7P5N TIL in the early years of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the helium balloons were released into the air instead of being deflated. A return address was stitched into the balloon and a $100 reward was offered if they were returned. One landed on a house and one nearly caused a plane crash.