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TIL In 2008 a Japanese bikini model was acquitted of trespass charges because a recreation of the alleged crime showed she couldn't have fit through the access hole because of her 44 inch breasts.

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r86y TIL 50 years before women were allowed to enroll into medical school, Margaret Ann Bulkley dressed as a man for 56 years to study medicine and become her alter-ego, Dr James Barry. It was only when she died in 1865 that her secret was exposed after 46 years working as an army medical officer.
rRxk4 TIL when giraffes are born, they fall six feet on their head, but it's the fall that gets them to start breathing
QJ6JL TIL that 87 men died on the Potomac after two ships collided while searching for John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
8aD6a TIL that string beans got their name because they used to have a fibrous string running from tip to tip that had to be "unzipped" before eating -- until the string was bred out by a botanist.
w8y8 TIL there is a residential development in China called Sky City that is a “Faux Paris,” complete with Parisian statues and an Eiffel Tower. The development has few residents and almost no businesses, giving it an abandoned, creepy feel. (pictures)