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

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698aQ TIL the ancient Greek alphabet -- and by implication today's English alphabet -- can be traced back to a single vote held in Athens in 403 BC on whether to adapt the "Ionic Alphabet", the first of the "Euclidean" alphabets. It supposedly took them one year to implement the metric change.
81oa TIL there is a rare mental disorder in which the sufferer is convinced that he or she is dead.
OoL91 TIL that the inventor of the Pringles can had his ashes buried in one.
WkkLo TIL that in Star Wars, Yoda's unusual speaking style is maintained in the Estonian dubs of the movie, where it is grammatically correct.
ZXPR TIL Clint Eastwood was in a plane which crashed into the sea. He and the pilot escaped the sinking aircraft and swam 3 miles to safety.