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TIL the CEO of HSBC in Taiwan walked his lesbian employee down the aisle in 2017 after her parents refused to go to the wedding

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R5rY8 TIL there's a Woodhenge 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge
KONR4 TIL If you were to print a book writing out a Googolplex (10 to the power of a Googol(10 to the power of 100)) with each book having 400 pages and a mass of 100 grams (3.52oz) the amount of books required would have a mass greater then the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies combined.
e0456 TIL That in 1992, A North Dakotan teen, John Thompson, was home alone when he had both of his arms chopped off by a tractor in a freak farming accident. However, he still managed to get up, go inside, and dial for help via holding a pencil in his mouth. He survived.
9Y4mD TIL there was once an appetite suppressing candy called Ayds, in the late 1980's due to public awareness of the aids crisis, similarities in name and the fact both could cause weight loss, sales plummeted by as much as 50%. Resulting in the eventual discontinuation of the brand.
x8k TIL Gandhi believed the Jews should have committed mass suicide instead of being killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust