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TIL: There is an unit of measurement known as 'smoot' (5 feet 7 inches or 1.708meters)

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YxnB TIL A Boeing 737 gets better gas mileage than a Honda Odyssey, a Toyota Camry and a Harley Davidson Sportster (per person)
796b TIL Norway actually introduced Salmon Sushi to Japan
R7Yy7 TIL in the early 20th century, if a policitician died, he would be replaced in office by his widow
yVZmv TIL that a Korean cult predicted the rapture to occur on 12AM, October 28, 1992. Parishioners awaited transportation to heaven; some had quit their jobs or given away possessions. Mass suicides were feared. 10 minutes after 12AM, a boy shouted from inside: “Nothing is happening.”
yPxV TIL Before federal wiretapping caught Eliot Spitzer in a prostitution scandal in early 2008, he had nearly exposed the lending practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis when he was Attorney General of New York. He was also known as the “sheriff of Wall Street” at the time.