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TIL Saturns Ring is only 100 meters thick (about the length of a football field)

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9wL4B TIL about laboratory-grown penises
VBJBB TIL: the book “fly fishing by J. R. Hartley” which featured in the 1983 yellow pages advert was not a real book and J. R. Hartley was not a real person. The book was published later under the pseudonym to catch the cult status the advert generated.
woDRY TIL that a millipede was discovered in 2021 which has up to 1306 legs, making it the first true millipede.
agKZ TIL that an English POW in WWI was granted permission to visit his dying mother and voluntarily returned a week later.
Z8lAB TIL that England doesn't have its own national anthem so God Save the Queen (the national anthem of the United Kingdom as a whole) is often used in its place. Candidates for an English national anthem include "Jerusalem", "Land of Hope and Glory"and "I Vow to Thee, My Country".