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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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aw18Z TIL that the name for Director Brian Singer's production company Bad Hat Harry Productions (X-Men, The Usual Suspects, House, M.D.), and the quote that accompanies the "Vanity Card" shown at the end of a TV Show they produced, are taken from Jaws.
Y7pXG TIL that Horatio Alger, whose aspirational and highly popular stories usually featured a poor boy being taken under the wing of an older man, was charged with "the abominable and revolting crime of gross familiarity with boys" as a young minister. He did not contest the charges and left town.
nDbY TIL That the socially awkward penguin meme is copyrighted by Getty and they charge up to 900 dollars for a single use
69eD7 TIL sometimes a baby can taste what their mom had for lunch
oBO7K TIL about the World's Littlest Skycraper, a building for which investors were given a blueprint measured in inches rather than feet. The promoter then ran off with the money after a building 12 times too small was constructed.