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TIL the Great Wall of China was built using sticky rice, creating a super-strong mortar that remains the best available material for restoring ancient buildings to this day.

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narr TIL one mathematician, inspired by Helen of Troy, proposed a standard unit of measurement for beauty called the “millihelen.” The millihelen is jokingly used as the measuring unit how much beauty is required to launch a ship.
KOXQw TIL Ed O'Neill (the father in the Married with Children) is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt.
5Vm9r TIL 'First, do no harm' is not part of the Hippocratic Oath
d8jX9 TIL that there is a movie called Come and See (1985) and it's a Belarusian anti-war film filmed in the Soviet Union. It's absolutely horrifying and difficult for Americans to watch because the realism.
GJdE TIL a 16 year old was convicted of murder and sentenced to 55 years despite the fact that he hadn’t killed anyone