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TIL that the 5th of March is St Piran's Day the national day of Cornwall.

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p8xbG TIL Sumo has a sort of caste system- wrestlers typically live together and higher ranked earn far more money, and are treated akin to royalty, while lower ranked wake up earlier to make the food, earn far less money, and even have to bathe the higher ranked
yd48 TIL in 1998 Serena Williams claimed she could beat any male tennis player ranked over 200, Karsten Braasch, ranked 203 at the time, accepted the challenge and beat Serena 6-1, followed by Venus 6-2. Subsequently Serena then changed her claim to any male player ranked over 350, but never challenged.
kOEn7 There's an extremely rare metallic asteroid lurking between Mars and Jupiter, and it's worth more than the entire global economy. Now, the Hubble Space Telescope has given us a closer look at the object, which is worth an estimated $10,000 quadrillion. — that's a one followed by 19 zeroes.
v1Vo7 TIL that any Canadian citizen, who has lived in the Yukon for at least one year, can get free land from the government, provided they are willing to farm it.
RYxl TIL On the 27th of August 1883 the loudest noise in recorded history came from a volcanic eruption that had a force 10,000 times that of a hydrogen bomb.