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TIL that the British Royal Family are the largest landowners in the world. Followed by the Catholic Church and the Inuit People of Nunavut

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mW9O TIL that “The Safety Dance” is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s new wave music in clubs when disco was dying and new wave was up and coming.
mxKDY TIL: In 2000, Tim Miller founded Texas EquuSearch, a search-and-recovery non-profit which has assisted with hundreds of missing-persons cases and located more than 400 living people and 238 bodies. His own daughter was abducted & murdered in 1984.
J8MQ TIL the smell of “Freshly cut grass” is caused by cis-3-Hexen-1-ol, A leaf Alcohol
bnKp TIL Japanese swordsmiths are only permitted to smith two swords a month.
m1pjR TIL there is a tradition in Canada called a "stag and doe party" where an engaged couple charges an admission fee to fundraise for their wedding