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TIL New Guinea (island) is over three times larger than Great Britain (both as an island and as a country)

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vPmx TIL use of the word “Faggot” on Twitter drops ~25% on Saturdays
LmYr TIL Tesla Motors, and other companies run by Elon Musk, have been operating at a net loss for a decade and are heavily subsidized by the government (est. $4.9 billion)
b6G6j TIL Jim Jones was an advocate for racial equality, racially integrating his church in the 1950s and working with civil rights leaders, before leading over 900 of his followers to their deaths in the Jonestown massacre.
wLdVo TIL between 1982 and 1995, Robert Goldman asked athletes in power and combat sports if they would take a performance-enhancing pill that would grant them overwhelming success in their sport, but kill them in 5 years. More than half said yes.
MgyB TIL: Many statues in NYC are of the same woman who was the first nude woman in film and spent the last 40+ years of her life in an asylum