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TIL that CDs were designed to fit 74 minutes of audio so Beethoven’s 9th would fit on one disc

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kORje TIL that the tiniest piece of ceramic (like from a broken sparkplug) can shatter tempered glass with minimum force.
ne6Lr TIL that in the case of ‘Mattel vs. Aqua’ over their song ‘Barbie Girl’, a judge who dismissed the suit said “The parties are advised to chill” in his ruling.
j6jYj TIL A brown dwarf star is 13 to 80 times the size of Jupiter but doesn't have enough mass to fuse hydrogen (they can fuse deuterium and massive ones can fuse lithium). Because of the lack of energy some brown dwarfs put out little to no light and can have a surface temperature as low as -23C (-10F).
ADbKx TIL of the most famous person ever to have literally been in a pickle, Horatio Nelson. He died at sea, so the surgeon on board pickled his body in brandy to preserve it for the long trip to England. 2 weeks into the journey, gaseous pressures burst the cask lid, making Nelson "rise from the dead."
4XpAX TIL dogs and cats can literally tear out their own intestines if you don't leave that cone on after they're spayed.