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TIL: Gouda cheese is pronounced "how dah"
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TIL that Lincoln Cathedral in England was the tallest building in the world from 1311 to 1549, when its spire collapsed. Its original height was not surpassed until 1890.
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TIL there is a modded version of WhatsApp that allows you to hide/archive chat groups permanently
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TIL that dragonfly-like Meganeuropsis permiana which flew around 300 million years ago was 1.5 feet long with a wingspan of 2.5 feet. The biggest insect that has ever existed. If we cloned one today, it would probably suffocate because it needed the 30% Oxygen atmosphere present then (20% now).
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TIL The most famous Romanian author survived the Holocaust, only to be hit by a truck as he was going to teach his first university lecture a few months after the Nazis were kicked out of Romania.
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TIL the members of The British Royal Family aren’t allowed to play Monopoly because of how vicious the competition gets.