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TIL about autological words ("English", "parasyllabic", "unhyphenated") which describe themselves, and heterological words ("long", "hyphenated", "monosyllabic") which do not describe themselves. "Heterological" itself cannot logically be autological or heterological: The "Grelling–Nelson Paradox"

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woXQ8 TIL about the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall, 2700 km long and built to keep out guerilla fighters
QKrk We get it. OJ was considered for the part of the Terminator and planes have crashed (or been shot down) over the years.
oBwNE TIL despite being thin and athletic, serial killer Israel Keyes got lap band surgery in his late 20s, presumably so he could go for prolonged periods without eating during his murder sprees
WkgA8 TIL if the people of Planken, Liechtenstein exercised their constitutional right to secede, they would become the world's least populated nation (450 people) and the third smallest in area.
LVx9 TIL: During the First Wave of Feminism a Spanish mother raised her child to be the Woman of the Future she spoke 6 languages when eight years old, finished Law School at 17 and then her mother shot her to death.