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TIL the entire world's population could fit inside Los Angeles.

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5YdWB TIL if you won the lottery in Australia, you had to go public with your win, turning into an overnight celebrity. This was until the abduction & murder of Graeme Thorne, 8, whose family won the lottery leading to Graeme being abducted for ransom but killed.
B5OL TIL the head of the penis functions as shock absorption during intercourse
mxbAR TIL about Phineas Gage who survived a traumatic brain injury when an iron rod was driven through his entire skull, destroying much of his frontal lobe.
kO6ee TIL that doublet and triplet phrases in English (null and void, terms and conditions, will and testament) originate in legal writing, where words from two different languages would be used together to ensure that the writing is unambiguous
PNxV TIL that the most expensive domain name is vacationrentals.com, which was bought for $35 million, beating out more commonly searched domains such as sex.com, porn.com, beer.com, etc.