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TIL the world’s longest wedding dress train is 8,095.40 meters, which is almost long enough to reach Mount Everest at 8,850 meters.

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OoakL TIL that the composer Arnold Schoenberg had a morbid fear of the number 13. On his 76th birthday, an astrologer wrote him a letter of warning reading only "7 + 6 = 13", causing him to fall into a deep depression and illness, from which he died on Friday the 13th.
5kN8 TIL that UK charity parachute jumpers injure themselves so frequently that, for every £1 they raise for charity, they cost the public health system £13.75.
mjyv TIL that there is a 150-year-old mosque in Iran that, when viewed from the interior at certain hours of the day, produces an intense kaleidoscopic effect due to its unique pattern of tiling and colored glass
b6mmQ TIL that a healthy human can briefly produce about 1.2 Horsepower
xV6ZD TIL the spot where Julius Caesar was assassinated is now a cat sanctuary for 250 cats.