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TIL of the 50 tallest statues in the world, 33 depict a buddha or bodhisattva.

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XELv6 TIL of SR-71 Blackbird test pilot Bill Weaver, who survived a free fall from space after his plane disintegrated around him doing Mach 3.2
Wkbl9 TIL that the Horn of Africa is NOT at the bottom of Africa, around South Africa. It is around Ethiopia to the NE, below the Red Sea.
p8y8A TIL Americans spend on average $143 on Valentine's Day according to the National Retail Federation (NRF)
wLWp8 TIL that the classic movie portrayal of a crowded asteroid belt where the asteroids are only metres apart is inaccurate. In reality the average distance between asteroids is around 965,000 km (600,000 miles) and if you were to fly through it, a collision would be unlikely.
65nZ TIL two innocent people were imprisoned for 22 years due to false allegations of Satanic ritual sexual abuse of children. The social workers involved in the case believed that children’s denials of sexual abuse was proof that they had been abused.