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TIL that Hello kitty is the second highest-grossing media franchise after Pokémon

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4knV6 TIL of the Ovitz family, not only the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded but also the largest family (12 people ranging from a 15-month-old baby to a 58-year-old woman) to enter Auschwitz and survive intact
5VPR TIL that physicist Robert Lang is one of the world’s leading experts in the art and mathematics of origami. As such, his origami designs have helped in the innovations of airbag safety, heart surgery, and telescopes.
kJeQe TIL there was going to be a motion capture animated adaption of Anne Frank's diary but it disappeared without a trace
e0BXg TIL 3 men escaped from Alcatraz by digging holes in their cells using spoons, accessing an unguarded utility corridor. They climbed onto the roof, down a 50' drainpipe and over two 12' security fences before inflating a makeshift raft and swimming across the Bay. Their bodies have never been found.
PYYRV TIL that police in Kenya are ranked the worst in the world.