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TIL that a bank was once sent through USPS brick by brick

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D0dr TIL Bear Grylls admits that one his most spectacular scars is from a time when he was baking a pizza in his kitchen naked, he leaned in too far when pulling it out and got burned across the chest by the hot oven rack.
yV8BM TIL that a tense meeting at the 1977 Golden Globe Ceremony between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, began a twenty year rivalry between the two.
lo49K TIL that, as children, James Garner and his two brothers were beaten by their stepmother, who Garner later attacked and choked, to prevent her from killing him in retaliation, she left the family afterwards
xVX1k TIL in 1966 the US explored dropping a nuclear bomb on Hanoi to end the Vietnam War. One of the biggest concerns by the US was that protests would force Japan to close US military facilities in its country.
eppJE TIL coding RollerCoaster Tycoon in the late 1990s required significant optimization of PC power and memory constraints at the time. Per designer Chris Sawyer, letting guests drown was simply easier than programming the alternative of allowing them to swim to shore.