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TIL the biggest stadium in the world is in North Korea, with a capacity of 150,000.

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XEVPX TIL Henry VIII's sixth wife, Catherine Parr, was the goddaughter of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Parr's mother had been an attendant of the queen.
5Yj4R TIL that the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre is home to the four largest doors (each bay door is 139 metres high) and largest American flag (63.7 metres by 33.5 metres) in the world; the doors take 45 minutes to open.
EvgV TIL The inventor of the pop-up ad later admitted he was sorry for creating it, and believes its creation started a path that lead to the mass surveillance of the internet.
YpJv TIL that 90% of all adult entertainment is either filmed or produced in San Fernando Valley, CA
DQeyP TIL Daylight saving time was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand postal worker and amateur entomologist. Hudson thought that the extra daylight during the warmer months would give him more time to hunt insects after work