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TIL the longest wedding veil was over 63 football fields long, with by maria paraskeva, from cyprus in 2018

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064p TIL of George Raveling, Nike’s director of International Basketball, who currently holds the original typewritten copy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. MLK handed it to him when he stepped off the podium, and Raveling has kept it to this day and refuses to sell it.
R5k47 TIL that the talipot palm produces the world's largest flower cluster (inflorescence) containing one to several million flowers. It grows up to 25m tall, takes 30 to 80 years to reach maturity to flower and then dies immediately afterwards, having drained all its nutrients in the process.
yQM8M TIL the secret to the Cinnabon smell is their proprietary cinnamon blend, called Makara. You can buy it at most Cinnabon stores.
d8RMQ TIL Microwaves convert Vitamin B12 to an inactive form, which means about 30-40% of the Vitamin B12 in microwaved foods is not usable by mammals
7d7X TIL Abraham Lincoln never joined any church, and some of his closest friends rejected the idea that he was a believing Christian