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TIL shooting stars (meteors) can often times be as small as a grain of sand

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kOX4E TIL That part of the reason that mummies are so rare is because we ate them.
neX5Y TIL of Märket, a tiny island divided by the finnish-swedish border. When the finns inadvertedly built a lighthouse on the wrong side of the border, the swedes agreed to trade it for an equal spot of land on the other side, causing the border to zig-zag.
e0a9D TIL: Hot dog cart operators pay almost $300k an year, to operate outside Central Park, NYC.
ZVxv TIL In the 1980’s, Freddie Mercury dressed up Princess Diana in drag so she could go dance and party undetected at the local gay club.
9O4Q TIL in 2000, a study was done in which 20 healthy non-depressed volunteers were given the SSRI antidepressant Zoloft (Sertraline). Two weeks into the study two volunteers became dangerously suicidal.