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TIL Europa is the smoothest object known in the solar system

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eEV5 TIL during the shooting of The Blues Brothers, cocaine was included as part of the movie’s budget.
69147 TIL One of James Starley’s early inventions was a device that allowed a duck to pass through a gap in a fence, but stopped rats from following it, he would go on to invent the differential gear
xN9D TIL: A teen girl killed herself in prison while guards watched for 45 minutes, claiming they were ordered not to intervene. The girl had originally been arrested years earlier for shoplifting, and had severe mental illness.
emB4 TIL That Japan has 2GB/s Internet
bK4Z TIL a patent is pending on a “Jar with a Twist” – a container for dispensing peanut butter and other similar products – that has a rotating bottom which functions similar to a deodorant stick to bring the contents of the jar up towards the top for easier access.