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TIL chewing gum is primarily made of rubber and plastic.
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TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the Millennium Prize problems). He later quit his job, turned down the $1 million prize as well as the Fields Medal, and is thought to have withdrawn from the field of mathematics entirely.
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TIL There exists a giant cloud of alcohol in outer space which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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TIL Indian novelist Anita Desai was born to a German mother and a Bengali businessman during a period when it was still unusual for an Indian man to marry a European woman. She grew up speaking Hindi with her neighbours, and only German at her home
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TIL the world record for long-distance archery is held by a guy with no arms.
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TIL a Florida millionaire was being sued for a wrongful death resulting from DUI, so he adopted his 42 year-old girlfried because the court had ruled that the trust set up for his children could not be considered as part of his financial worth.