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TIL Colonel Sanders and Muhammad Ali are buried at the same cemetery.

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rDAo TIL that people born on the island of Bali, Indonesia are traditionally given one of four names based on their birth order within the family. The first child is called ‘oldest’, the second 'middle’, etc. The cycle repeats itself after the fourth, where the fifth child is called 'oldest again’.
lEl7 TIL that the average American woman weighs too much to use birth control effectively.
d8LyQ TIL "URL" means "Uniform Resource Locator"
l5GN TIL that during nuclear testing in Los Alamos in the ‘50s, an underground test shot a 2-ton steel manhole cover into the atmosphere at 41 miles/second. It was never found.
loVb1 TIL Bones produce piezoelectricity when stress is applied and forms electrical dipoles that attract osteoblasts. Osteoblasts deposit calcium and other minerals on the part of the bone that is stressed which increases the density of the bone.