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TIL that Norway has a national day, which is a holiday where women get made custom dresses worth several thousands of dollars

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OyDL TIL that an English photographer makes her living by taking lookalike photos of celebrities, including so-called shots of the queen on the toilet, a US president playing guitar in a sauna, and Marilyn Monroe being intimate with J F K.
KGOw TIL Bob’s burger restaurant, Bob’s Burgers (from “Bob’s Burgers”) would need to sell 785 of Bob’s burgers per month in order to pay rent.
G6wN TIL in 2013 the Saudi King Abdullah ordered Khalid Bin Mohsen Shaari, the heaviest person on the planet with a BMI of 204, to be hospitalized for weight reduction. Six months later, he had lost half his weight (320kg).
W7pYX TIL about anthropodermic bibliopegy, the practice of binding books in human skin that was popular in the 19th century.
KO776 TIL John Denver and his co-writer had never even been to West Virginia when they put out "Country Roads"