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TIL Japan has a longer coastline than Australia

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Eep TIL a British woman with severe Tourettes Syndrome owns a website where she records her own favorite vocal tics, and asks people to illustrate their favorites. Examples: “Batman breast fed my mum,” and “Roman velociraptor training scheme, artichoke speaking.”
4XZQN TIL a man lived undetected inside the Providence Place Mall (RI) for 4 years
VxQp TIL In 2004 Madrid bombings, FBI wrongly arrested an American man based on fingerprint evidence who had never been to Spain in his entire life. They later apolozied for the debacle.
oRk6A TIL The first attempt at executing somebody via toxic gas had failed because they pumped poison gas directly into the prisoners cell, which then leaked out. They then created a makeshift gas chamber in the prison butcher shop
KOOOw TIL that Michael Jackson was once officially crowned King of Sanwi, a small kingdom at the bottom of the Ivory Coast. When Michael Jackson died, the nation mourned for two whole days.