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TIL that Queen Victoria was the shortest of all British monarchs with height of only 1.52 m

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9Y6Qp TIL That in 2014, the Danish government created the entire country of Denmark in Minecraft. It was then promptly blown up by users and had American flags planted on the ruins.
9Y7mr TIL Around 4% of people do not take surveys seriously and provide silly answers. Around 7% of Americans were 'not sure' if lizardmen were running Earth. Around 13% of Americans claimed a former president was anti-Christ. The Lizardman constant (around 4%) explains some of strange results in surveys.
pvKO TIL Apollo 14 commander Alan Shephard once said “If somebody’d said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?’ I would have say, 'No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”
dD9gK TIL pizza rolls were created in the 1960s by a cook working for a Chinese food company searching for new uses for their egg roll machine. She tested several sandwich fillings, but pizza flavors tested best, causing her to say, "Pizza rolls are nothing but egg rolls with pizza crust and filling."
P1g0O TIL Feral pigeons are descendants of domestic pigeons. The domestication of all modern pigeons goes back 5,000-10,000 years!