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TIL the current Guinness World Record for the largest Haka is held by France. New Zealand set to win it back.

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P1gPZ TIL that not only did Barbie creator Ruth Handler name Barbie after her daughter Barbara, but she then named Ken after her son Kenneth.
0wk1N TIL of the Zoo Hypothesis, which is that aliens know we earthlings are here but are purposely avoiding contact, and which is also a plausible solution to the Fermi Paradox ("Where is everybody?" - given the number of places in the universe that are estimated to be life-friendly)
Ll9v TIL there is a town in Canada called “Reditt”. It had a highway 666 running through it, but a church successfully petitioned to have it renumbered, so that their address wasn’t on the “highway to hell.”
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