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TIL that stretch marks don't tan.

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x410 TIL of 7ft 9in Angus MacAskill. Known for his strength, MacAskill could lift a 2,800 lb ship anchor to his chest, carry 350 lb barrels under his arms, and he even lifted a horse over a 4 ft fence.
R5aQj TIL that people who attempted suicide have a shorter life expectancy by 11 years for women and 18 for men, and it’s surprisingly largely due to non-psychiatric disease
e1dn TIL that when the US government renamed a fish species from ‘slimehead’ to 'orange roughy’ it went from being relatively unknown, to becoming a threatened species within a decade.
eOPg TIL Michael Jackson wanted to do a Harry Potter musical but J.K. Rowling said no.
R5d4l TIL about the Potoooooooo horse, a famous 18th-century Thoroughbred racehorse who, as the story goes, got his name from the stable boy who misheard the name "Potatoes" and heard it literally as "pot-eight-o's" and wrote it out as such. The owner found it so funny that he kept the name.