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rBWW TIL: Obesity has created a market for over-sized caskets. Families may be forced to buy two plots to accommodate them.
klWd TIL the longest work of fiction ever written is a Super Smash Bros. fanfic. As of last year, it was 3,548,615 words long, six times longer than “War and Peace.”
8dbL TIL MIT puts almost all of its course materials online for anyone to access for free.
pY61e TIL that Jesse Owens became lifelong friends with his German long jump opponent during the famous 1936 Berlin Olympics
nyeY TIL a man made a homemade tank out of a bulldozer that was immune to armor piercing ammo, and took revenge on a town, causing over $7 million in damage before he took his own life