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TIL our sun only produces 1W of power for every 5 tons of mass

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b6RLQ TIL Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall were roommates together in NYC in the 1960s while working as struggling actors.
8eByP TIL that the world smallest piloted biplane to fly is the Starr Bumble Bee II with a wingspan of 5 ft 6 in, total length of 8 ft 10 inches and takeoff weight of 260 kg. The record was set by Robert Starr in 1988 when he climbed to 400ft before the engine failed causing a crash.
pYJ8Q TIL: There's a fifth special symbol in bowling score system for registering a Split in the card. (The other four symbols are "X" for Strike, "/" for Spare, "-" for Error and "F" for Foul.)
JPlQ TIL The price of entry to a zoo in 18th century England was a cat or a dog - They were fed to the lions.
kOmjg TIL The UNICEF once showed an ad where they bombed the smurfs to raise money for charity.