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TIL: Standing at 7"6’, 15-year-old teen basketball giant Robert Bobroczky is already taller than any current NBA player.

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Pp5w TIL in Iran it is forbidden for women to ride traditional bicycles in the belief that it is a sexual stimulant and “causes corruption". Women riders are attacked by vigilantes. The Iranian version of the Islamic bicycle has a “boxy contraption that hides a woman’s lower body.”
5V7lP TIL: That the term 'hamstring' came about as it was common to use the long tendons of these muscles to tie up hams or pork thighs for curing
kJLle TIL that in 2009, Christopher Nolan’s older brother, Matthew, was arrested and charged for the murder of an accountant in Costa Rica. However, Matthew never stood trial due to a lack of evidence.
Y7BMB TIL that Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of Kim Jong-il, was assassinated by two women who believed they were acting in a prank video
BryAy TIL there are two sizes of mattress bigger than the king: the Wyoming King and the Alaskan King