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TIL that White Castle is short for The White Castle System of Eating Houses Corporation

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gMmK7 TIL: Jon Brower Minnoch was an American man who, at his peak weight, was the heaviest human being ever recorded, weighing 1,400 lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone). This additionally makes him the largest known primate ever to have lived, exceeding the upper estimated size of Gigantopithecus.
oDRY TIL: A legless girl was adopted at birth, became a successful, competitive gymnast, idolizing Dominique Moceanu, and later learned that they were biological sisters.
ZlB TIL there is evidence we have a sense of being stared at.
ydOl TIL that the British war hero Admiral Nelson was taken back to England (from the Battle of Trafalgar) in a coffin made from the mast of a French ship he had sunk
XEyDR Today I learned the oldest grizzly recorded at Yellowstone was 34 years old. He was tattooed with the number 168 and had no teeth when he was euthanized for general decline