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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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69p8W TIL the Swiss Federal Railways uses vibraphone melodies in announcements based on its Swiss national language acronyms: SBB (E♭-B♭-B♭) German, CFF (C-F-F) French and FFS (F-F-E♭) Italian. The tune and language vary by canton or country the train is in.
8a0PZ TIL if you want to support local restaurants, don't use 3rd-party delivery services. Call the restaurant directly to order so they aren't hit with all the fees Uber and Doordash charge them.
4kVEa TIL that Wall Street gets it's name from the wall built around the Dutch colony in New York
e4o6 TIL scientists have identified an asteroid in our solar system, 16 Psyche, which has enough iron to fuel planetary consumption for millions of years. The Earth may have as little as a century of mineable iron left, in contrast.
9YQbX TIL that the first commercial passenger airliner to be shot down by hostile forces was refurbished, returned to service, and later became the third commercial passenger airliner to be shot down by hostile forces.