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TIL giraffes and humans both have 7 neck vertebrae

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OGxja TIL that the British Royal Family are the largest landowners in the world. Followed by the Catholic Church and the Inuit People of Nunavut
gM7L4 TIL in the US in the late 19th Century it was briefly fashionable for people to form "13 Clubs" where they would dine in groups of 13, walk under ladders, spill salt at the table, etc. to demonstrate their lack of superstition. Several future US Presidents participated.
awPd0 TIL that The Ancient Egyptians believed that the false door was a threshold between the worlds of the living and the dead and through which a deity or the spirit of the deceased could enter and exit.
XwVE TIL British grenades in WWI originally had a timer of seven seconds, but that was found to be too long as it gave the Germans time to throw the bomb back. Therefore, the time was reduced to four seconds.
BgxGy TIL: In 1914 The Suffragettes tried to blow up the Coronation Chair