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TIL that 1,600 people worked for two and a half years to produce 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds (hand painted, fired, etc, in 30 step procedure) for a Ai Weiwei art project.

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gMwob TIL about microbursts. A microburst is created by a column of sinking air that after hitting ground level, spreads out in all directions and is capable of producing damaging straight-line winds of over 240 km/h (150 mph)
0K0L TIL when Beethoven was challenged to an improvisation duel by one of his rivals named Steibelt, Beethoven took a piece of Steibelt’s music, turned it upside down, played it, then improvised on that theme for over an hour. Steibelt simply left halfway through.
dDyk8 TIL that NASA's Gemini 7 space mission lasted for 14 days. After rendezvousing with Gemini 6 on the 11th day, the two astronauts had nothing to do other than read books in the very cramped cockpit. Frank Borman, the commander, said that the last three days were "bad".
gr6mb TIL It is generally accepted that the first real high five was done by Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team on October 2, 1977.
XERRk TIL that a study shows that a man who is 5’6” needs to earn $175,000 per year more than a 6 foot man to be “equally desirable”