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TIL that Jon Lovitz once slammed Andy Dick’s head into a bar

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kJY7 TIL Andrew Carnegie would be worth a net total of $298.3 billion dollars in today’s currency, and believed that it was the rich’s duty to distribute their wealth to benevolent causes. He himself gave more than 4 billion away to charities and funded over 3,000 libraries.
jNNXv TIL a group of small (1 mm) adult Caenorhabditis elegans worms, living in petri dishes enclosed in aluminum canisters, survived reentry and impact with the ground and were recovered weeks after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003, found alive on April 28 of the same year.
ADn9o TIL that Henry George's treatise on economics "Progress and Poverty", which seeks to explain why poverty exists even within advanced and wealthy societies, sold over 3 million copies in the first 10 years after its publication, making it more popular than every book in the 1890s except for the Bible
Me1pb TIL Tesseract is the name of a real geometrical concept - it is a cube in 4-dimensional space. It is a 4D shape whose every face is a cube. Just like a cube can be unfolded into 6 squares in 2D space, a tesseract can be unfolded into 8 cubes in 3D space.
x64po TIL Ibn Baz, who was the most senior Islamic figure in Saudi Arabia between 1993 and 1999, claimed the Sun orbits the Earth.