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TIL The largest hula hoop ever hula hooped was 17ft wide andhula hooped by Getti Kehayova

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P1eyO TIL a Dutch pirate captured the Spanish treasure fleet sailing from the New World in 1628. The loss of silver alone was so great that the silver price spiked worldwide, and Spain was nearly bankrupted.
BZpk TIL that catnip is 10 times as effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the common ingredient in most bug sprays.
woE71 TIL: Enshittification is when online platforms optimize the user-experience for their customers; then once they have a following, they alter the platform to claw back all the value for themselves.
jNwJj TIL of cucamelons. They are a fruit that is about the size of a grape, looks like a watermelon, and taste like a mix between a cucumber and a lime.
O0X7 TIL that a person infected with HIV came from Haiti to America around 1969. Today, almost everybody with HIV in Europe, America, Japan and Australia can have their virus traced back to that same individual.