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TIL in the eighties in Japan there was a story-writing contest open to the public for a new Godzilla movie. It was won by a dentist and his story was made into the 1989 film 'Godzilla vs. Biollante'

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XElZR TIL human eggs are visible to the naked eye.
M7bpW TIL The small tropical city of Sanya on Hainan Island, now a global tourism destination, was annexed by Emperor Qin in 214 BCE and was considered inaccessible, mysterious in ancient China. Mainly inhabited by ethnic Li and Miao, barriers and poor transportation prevented Han people from visiting it
GYb9g TIL that Kurt Cobain's guttural and slurred voice contributed to the early resistance from radio stations towards adding Nirvana's most famous song: "Smell like teen spirit" to their playlists as it was hard to understand what Cobain was singing.
LwgP TIL that internet providers use megabits per second (Mbps) to measure download speed, which is 1/8th the size of a megabyte (MBps), despite files being measured in bytes
OGgOX TIL that the country with the most doctors per capita is Cuba (8.4 doctors per 1,000 people)