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TIL the best place to see rainbow is Hawaii

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L44Q TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden’s height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden’s corpse.
9YDQD TIL There are only 23 words that date back 15,000 years and are considered the oldest known words in the English language. They are: thou, I, not, that, we, to give, who, this, what, man/male, ye, old, mother, to hear, hand, fire, to pull, black, to flow, bark, ashes, to spit, and worm.
OW8L TIL psychologist Dan Ariely and others earned the 2008 Ig Nobel prize in medicine “ for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine”
VBN4k TIL that Nintendo Switch cartridges are really designed to taste bad. It is coated with Denatonium Benzoate which is a bitter tasting substance that the company uses to prevent people from swallowing it.
j6pEp TIL of the "Tiffany Problem", where a historical or realistic fact is deemed anachronistic or unrealistic due to modern associations. Named after the name Tiffany, which is often considered a modern name but has medieval origins.