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TIL that the King of Prussia had a personal army of 3000 tall men and admitted, "The most beautiful girl or woman in the world would be a matter of indifference to me, but tall soldiers—they are my weakness"

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5VPlr TIL There are more redwoods in the UK than in California. Many were planted in the Victorian era and are still growing taller.
LAAZ TIL the Mongolian idiom used when someone sneezes: бурхан оршоо бутын чинээ сахал урга. (Translated as “God bless you and may your moustache grow like brushwood.”)
VMepm TIL that a sunflower maze has been planted near Fukushima. Sunflowers are believed the help soil absorb radiation and were also used following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
E1bex TIL Orson Welles sat next to Hitler and said that Hitler made no impression on him at all and was unmemorable. He said that he had no personality at all: "He was invisible. There was nothing there until there were 5,000 people yelling sieg heil"
wO8W TIL The children’s book author of “Goodnight Moon” Margaret Wise Brown died at 42 while showing her doctor how well she felt by kicking up her leg like a can-can dancer; it dislodged a clot in her leg that traveled to her heart, killing her.