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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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VBORQ TIL the current chief legal counsel to the Philippine President is 100 years old
j6LrM TIL a study titled "Where Are They Now?" in 1978 followed up on 515 people who were prevented from attempting suicide using the Golden Gate Bridge from 1937 to 1971. About 90% were either alive or had died of natural causes, concluding "suicidal behavior is crisis-oriented" rather than inexorable.
KOyQ6 TIL about a British man who bought a ceramic pot at a junk sale for less than £4 and used it as a toothbrush holder until learning it was actually made in the Indus Valley of present-day Afghanistan about 4,000 years ago. It's thought the pot was originally brought to the UK by British tourists.
nnwY TIL Paul McCartney earns $400,000 a year off his Christmas song, which is widely regarded as the worst song he ever recorded.
J1Nnm TIL that the phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" is never once said in any of the 60 Sherlock Holmes stories.