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TIL the different standard sizes of beds.

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GK97 TIL that after the bombing of Hiroshima, there were “ant-walking alligators” that the survivors saw everywhere, men and women who “were now eyeless and faceless — with their heads transformed into blackened alligator hides displaying red holes, indicating mouths.”
168dr TIL "Willie McBride," the fallen soldier eulogized in the folk song "No Man's Land (Green Fields of France)," is both fictional and real. The writer invented his name, but several young men named "William McBride" did die in World War I and match some or all of the song's description.
9Y5rQ TIL Suriname is a country in South America that uses Dutch as a majority language. Sranan Tongo is a creole language also spoken there, made of English, Dutch, Portuguese, and West African languages. Population includes Natives, Dutch, Indonesian, Indian, Chinese, and runaway slaves (Maroons).
5Yo6P TIL that Pitchfork readers voted Kanye West's Album "Yeezus" as both the "Most Overrated Album" and "Most Underrated Album" of 2013
K0K4 TIL The Nazis banned and burned the book Bambi because they believed it was a “political allegory on the treatment of Jews in Europe.”