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TIL The biggest chicken nugget ever made weighed 51 pounds and was 3.25 feet long x 2 feet wide

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neZ6r TIL that in 2009, a Latvian company offered short-term loans of up to $500, with the clients signing their immortal soul as collateral. The company said they wouldn't employ debt collectors to get its money back: "If they don’t give it back, what can you do? They won’t have a soul, that’s all"
P1mXE TIL at age 20, Pope Benedict IX was the youngest Pope ever elected, and served as Pope on three different occasions. The first time he was overthrown, 2nd time he resigned, the third time he was overthrown again.
pYPap TIL that the painter Caravaggio's real name was Michelangelo.
p8Q0e TIL Fantasia (1940) was the first commercial film with stereo audio. The film was originally supposed to just be the Silly Symphony 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' with the goal to popularize 'Fantasound' and Mickey Mouse, but as costs increased a series of segments were made for a film.
4LD6 TIL Franklin W. Dixon, author of The Hardy Boys, DOESN’T EXIST. It’s just a nom de plume given to various ghostwriters.