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TIL FedEx returned a volleyball that washed up after the Japanese tsunami

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b6WGZ TIL the model for Ariel in the Little Mermaid, Sherri Stoner, later created and voiced Slappy Squirrel on Animaniacs
E1NLo TIL if two pieces of the same metal were to touch in space, they would bond and become inseparably fused together. This doesn't happen on Earth, because the oxygen in our atmosphere forms an extremely thin film of oxidized metal on every exposed surface.
yGmX TIL they didn’t know how strong the blast of the first prototype of the atomic bomb before detonating it in the New Mexico desert. They even had pre-prepared press releases for every event from ‘loud noise’ to 'among the dead were’.
x6kPD TIL of The Beetle (1897), a novel about a shapeshifter in London. It was so popular upon release, that it sold six times as many copies as Dracula.
e9ag TIL that a building burned down across the street from the Beach Boys’ studio right after they recorded the chaotic instrumental piece “The Elements: Fire”. Mentally unstable bandleader Brian Wilson was convinced for years the two were linked.