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TIL that Android was originally conceived as a camera operating system.

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gADb TIL NFL cheerleaders would earn more money serving beer at concessions stands
N7BYQ TIL There is a monument in Kyoto Japan called the Ear Mound. It consists of Ears and Noses of Chinese and Koreans killed by the Japanese in the late 1500's. Its estimated there are 38,000 Korean noses in this Ear Mound memorial.
9YnoD TIL there are only 3 countries that don't use the metric system—Burma, Liberia, and the US.
ADa1B TIL that John Cleese was expelled from Clifton College as a young boy after painting footsteps on the ground to suggest that the school's statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had gotten down from its plinth and gone to the toilet
e0Jok TIL: The Queen of England always carries one of her two hundred purses on outings, and the way she holds them has a very specific meaning. For example, if she’s at dinner and places it on the table, that means she wants to end the event in the next five minutes.