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TIL there are two sizes of mattress bigger than the king: the Wyoming King and the Alaskan King

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GAoM1 TIL there were square halos. These were used in donor portraits, a depiction of the person who commissioned the artwork placed among saints, to mark the contemporary donor.
b9Aga TIL that camels store upwards of 30kg of nutrient rich fat in their humps. During times of famine and drought, the fat is absorbed to nourish the camel and the hump actually goes limp like a deflated balloon when the fat is depleted.
xa5k TIL some U.S. bars and restaurants have been misleading patrons by replacing their standard 16-ounce pint glasses with nearly identical looking 14-ounce glasses
mxrvY TIL Dick Seaman became a Nazi sporting legend after he was hand picked by Adolf Hitler to become a racing driver for Mercedes-Benz in 1937
16QN4 TIL during a 2016 expedition to find the Loch Ness Monster, a 30-ft model of the Monster was discovered at the bottom of Loch Ness - a lost prop from the 1970 film 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'.