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TIL, The oil from a right whale would operate an average American car for 8 years.

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OGGoL TIL Hawaii is home to one of the least sunniest places in the whole of the United States- the "town" (CDP) of Hilo located on the Big Island which is also among the country's rainiest.
XZLX TIL that walking through a doorway can cause you to “reset” your memory which causes you to forget why you went into another room in the first place.
Yp11Z TIL the Pentagon was built in less than a year and a half and was only supposed to be temporary
KvyB TIL in 1959 Soviet Premiere Nikita Khruschchev was denied a request to visit Disneyland during a trip to the United States. He became enraged and stated “But just now I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked ‘Why not? What is it? Do you have rocket-launching pads there?’ I do not know.”
6EGgw TIL A ‘School of Undressing’ was founded for women in 1937, in the belief that ‘poor technique’ was driving up divorce rates.