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TIL When cotton comes into contact with super glue, it catches on fire

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kOJJ5 TIL New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle's 2006 deadly airplane crash hit the apartment of the same woman who was critically injured at the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade after the Cat in The Hat balloon struck a lamppost that wound up hitting her in the head.
eeWg TIL that the classic children’s book “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch was first conceived as a song about the author’s two stillborn babies.
BZPb TIL artist Chuck Close, renowned for his large photo-realistic portraits, suffered a stroke at age 48 which left him paralyzed from the neck down. However, he continued painting, using chunks of paper, finger prints and paint blobs to create the same photo-realism effect, just at a lower resolution.
rBNd TIL Satanist are distributing a Coloring Book for Children (this webpage contains a link to the PDF ebook)
j6gGX TIL In 1993 Russia launched an orbital mirror called Znamya-2 that successfully reflected sunlight onto Earth at night, creating a bright spot approximately 5 kilometers wide moving across Europe at orbital speed. It was the first experiment in a program aimed at illuminating cities during nighttime