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TIL that a man devoted a year of his life to taking the bible as literally as he could: never wearing two kinds of clothing material, never sitting where a woman on her period might have and even stoning adulterers.

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5vgn TIL that in 1990, a British Airways pilot was sucked half way out of the planes window for over 20 minutes. He was only kept in by a crew member holding onto his belt. He survived with frostbite and a broken arm.
4X865 TIL Finland has a unit of measurement, “poronkusema,” that means “the distance a reindeer could travel without stopping to urinate.”
ba7a TIL It Was Once Someone’s Job to Chat With the King While He Used the Toilet
b9ON0 TIL The dizziness and blurred vision (feeling of fainting) caused by suddenly standing up after a long time is called Orthostatic Hypotension. Because of gravity, your blood will fall to your lower body which causes your Thorax (chest area) and head to temporarily lose 700ml of blood.
gNn9 TIL Before landing the part of Draco Malfoy, Tom Felton had auditioned to play Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.