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TIL Asians on average have wider feet than Europeans or Americans for the same foot length, based on an analysis of 1.2 million foot scans

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1aeEd TIL The Sonnet 'Ozymandias', written in 1817 by Percy Bysshe Shelley, is only 14 lines long, and was written in a 'friendly competition' with his friend Horace Smith, who also wrote a sonnet with the same title.
QNyEM TIL Airport runway numbers aren't sequential, they are based off compass bearings. Runway 9 would be 90 degrees, runway 27 is 270 degrees...
E1Nop TIL that in the '50s P&G used a supercomputer for designing Pringles to ensure that the chips' aerodynamics would keep them in place during packaging and that they would not break when being stacked on top of each other.
a8w5J TIL in Asia, honeybees smear their hive entrances with animal poop to ward off Murder Hornets. One of the few observable times insects have used tools.
DQaov TIL the King of Hearts appears to be sticking a sword into his own head because he originally held an axe but over centuries English copiers removed the axe-head