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TIL world's largest pillow fight involved 7,681 participants in Minnesota.

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nePl7 TIL that Sai, traditional eastern asian weapons, were actually more similar in usage to bludgeoning weapons than to daggers - The middle part of a Sai isn't even pointy!
wLdVE TIL Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman married model Mandy Smith when he was 52 and she was 18 after dating for 5 years. When they divorced, Wyman's oldest son married Smith's mother making the elder Smith both Wyman's daughter-in-law and ex-mother-in-law.
16kpW TIL about Prototaxites: giant tree-like fungi that lived over 350 million years ago with heights reaching more than 20ft (6.5+m) tall.
XEKwQ TIL that Gershon Legman (who coined the phrase "Make love, not war") categorised 3780 sex positions
rNp74 TIL that, since the 1970s, women and under-18 men are banned from enter Herbertstraße (part of the red light district of Hamburg) due to prostitutes actively chasing away any women who entered to seek their husbands or boyfriends