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TIL in 2001 the Taliban in Afghanistan dynamited and destroyed the two largest standing Buddhist statues in the world, both over 100 feet tall and more than 1400 years old.

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v1xnL TIL "Big Pool" in Garden City, Kansas, built in 1922, is the world's largest outdoor concrete municipal swimming pool. It holds over two million gallons of water and is so large people can water ski on it.
kOroe TIL about Sarah Rector, an impoverished black girl who became a millionaire oil baron when oil was discovered on the land allotted to her by the government. She avoided hundreds of attempts tp scam her out of her fortune and became known as the “Richest coloured girl in the world.”
p5PG TIL: A Rutgers study found out that drug addicts became trapped into addiction trying to seek relief from emotional lows rather than euphoric highs as previously thought.
OxR1 TIL The atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping ‘wings’ attached to their arms.
WkO4B TIL dogs don’t feel guilt