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TIL There was a contest in 2003 to find which building in the world was the most penis-shaped.

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GAP7J TIL that even if a Nuclear Winter occurred, it would be followed by a Nuclear Summer
5Agn TIL letters of the alphabet being referred to as “uppercase” and “lowercase” originated from the printing press. Typesetters would store all the individual letters in two cases. The capital letters were stored in the Upper Case and the rest were stored in the lower.
O47 TIL that the Hubble can identify something only 10-24 km across at a distance of 4.7 billion km. That’s the equivalent of seeing a red blood cell at a distance of 1 km.
JRDB TIL After Dante Rosetti’s wife died he buried her with the only copy of his unpublished poems. Later Rosetti found himself suffering from writer’s block, so he dug her up and retrieved his poems. They were published and well received by critics. He never forgave himself for reopening her grave.
pBVG TIL that as a Jew, Jesus would have had short hair, but artists eventually gave him long hair to make him seem more god-like, in the image of the Roman gods Jupiter and Neptune