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TIL that sea otters have the densest hair in the world, ranging from about 26,000 to 165,000 hairs per square centimeter.

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69RaZ TIL only 31 cities in Australia have a population of over 50,000. In the US, 50,000 is about the size of Enid, Oklahoma or Galveston, Texas.
QJW1E TIL There is a rare condition called Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) that only around 60 people in the world are known to have. This condition makes the person remember nearly every day in their life in exact details.
5RmB TIL that a former teacher who was convicted for sexually abusing her 12 year old student when she was 34 in the 1990s is now married to him and hosts a weekly ‘Hot for Teacher’ night at her local bar.
1KYP TIL When filming Wayne’s World, Dana Carvey did not know the words to Bohemian Rhapsody when they filmed everyone singing along in the car.
epO0D TIL that Phan Thi Mao, a young Vietnamese woman, was kidnapped and repeatedly abused by US soldiers in 1966, only one of those soldiers decided to stand up for her and reported the situation, this event became known as the “incident on Hill 192”