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TIL that there is a weight limit for donating your body to science.

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RkO7 TIL that there is a hidden spy room at an AT&T building in downtown San Francisco that splits all incoming communications traffic, copying this information to the NSA. This room has been operational since at least 2003 and has been publicly known to exist since 2006.
OGQG7 TIL for-profit bail only exists in 2 countries (US and Philippines). Elsewhere, paying money to leave pretrial detention is considered "a debt trap for poor defendants."
MekX7 TIL The world's largest family stays in India. The husband has 39 wives and 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram.
v1PN4 TIL that Great Britain is one of only a few states that have an uncodified (unwritten) constitution. It consists not of a single document, but of a number of treaties, diverse laws, practices and conventions that have evolved over a long period of time.
GYww5 TIL there are at least 711 asteroids each with a value exceeding $100 trillion USD. The current global economy is roughly $80 trillion USD.