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TIL If you put superglue on cotton it will catch fire

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woonM TIL There are about 600 castles in Wales, which works out around 1 castle per 5200 people.
VRDG TIL a study where stradivaris and new violins were blind-tested has shown that most people prefer the sound of the newer instruments
4XvGa TIL of Ulugh Beg Observatory from 1420. Their hypothesis of a stellar year was rather accurate, at 365 days, 6 hours, 10 minutes and 8 seconds, only about 1 minute longer than the modern calculations
9wWKQ TIL Walt Disney originally planned to have The Wizard of Oz be the company’s second animated feature film after Snow White but the film rights were scooped up by MGM
pY85e TIL, the reason for many serial Killers "having three names", such as John Wayne Gacy, Henry Lee Lucas, Lee Harvey Oswald, is actually a convention of media reporting, under the assumption that by using the middle name people with the same first and last name will not be misidentified as the killer.