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TIL that Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish) have the potential to grow more than 60 million times their birth size, arguably the most extreme size growth of any vertebrate animal.

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16rA4 TIL of Thomas Fuller, an enslaved African and mental calculator. When asked how many seconds a man has lived in 70 years 17 days & 12 hours, he replied 2,210,500,800. When told he was wrong, Fuller said "massa, you forget de leap year", which was correct once the seconds of the leap years were added
QN4JX TIL about the old Chinese custom of 'footbinding' (also known as lotus feet), and that it was seen as a mark of feminine beauty and a status symbol, raising marriage prospects. Feet were broken and bound together, ensuing in many deformities, infections, and disabilities.
WkXy9 TIL Gerald Ford used to tell his friends: "I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon."
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awWVy TIL that KFC sponsors a children's version of Cricket in South Africa fittingly called KFC Mini Cricket.