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TIL as homage and in-joke, Quentin Tarantino named Mike Myers character from Inglourious Basterds "General Ed Feneche" to honor 1970s era Italian scream queen and sex symbol Edwige Fenech.

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16oNP TIL that kelp isn’t actually a plant, it’s part of a fourth group of organisms called protists.
V0KB TIL An adult human is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that’s (7 octillion) atoms.
XEYaj TIL Annie Hawkins-Turner, better known by the stage name Norma Stitz ("enormous tits"), holds the Guinness World Record for largest natural breasts. By American bra estimation, her measurements would put her in a 48V bra.
7JbL TIL in 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around the Earth, in order to serve as a man-made ionosphere. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
mDQO TIL that the 27th amendment, which forbids congress from raising their own pay during their term, was proposed by James Madison in 1789 and wasn’t ratified until 1992.