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TIL there is a Super Smash Bros fanfic that is over 3x longer than the entire Harry Potter series

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j6AJp TIL that the DSV Limiting Factor, a submarine that is used to dive into the deepest point of Earth, is owned by Valve's (makers of Steam, a PC gaming storefront) Gabe Newell.
nW6D7 TIL that Leonard Nemoy directed "Three Men and A Baby".
wLQ81 TIL in 1749 a stage show was advertised a where a man would squeeze his body into a wine bottle. It was a bet between the Duke of Portland and the Earl of Chesterfield that they could advertise something impossible and get fools to pay for it. The sold out theatre rioted when no performer showed up.
OoXJ1 TIL that those little aloe plants that pop up next to the big aloe plant are called "pups," and that's pretty cute :)
KPA6 TIL The record for most passengers ever carried by a commercial airliner is 1,088, by an El Al Boeing 747 during Operation Solomon, which involved the evacuation of Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and started on 24 May 1991. This figure included two babies born on the flight.