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TIL over the past few years the populations of wolves, lynxes, bears and wolverines in Europe have all been going up

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wLXe1 TIL that the tallest man of all time was Robert Wadlow @ 2.72m or 8 ft 11. He was asked if it bothers him that people stare, and he answered "No, I just overlook them."
jA9Q TIL that Mars Candy Incorporated found E.T. so ugly that the company refused to allow M&M’s to be used in the film, believing the creature would frighten children. This allowed The Hershey Company the opportunity to market Reese’s Pieces.
Me0vA TIL when the Israeli military developed their battle rifle, the Galil, they included a bottle opener built into the bottom of the gun. Previous guns had been damaged by Israeli soldiers who kept using their guns to open bottled beverages with their guns.
woAm8 TIL that in 1941 a little girl named Anna Sklepovich met President Franklin D. Roosevelt because of prank on her birthday.
1akOW TIL the earliest identified joke is an ancient Sumerian proverb dated to 1900 BC and contains toilet humor: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap"