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TIL the average height of adult women in South Korea went up 20.2 cm (8 inches) from 1896 to 1996.

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JYEo1 TIL of the Gouffé Case, a murder case which unfolded in France, 1889. The subsequent investigation lived on as a case study for budding criminologists. Many of the methods utilized by Dr. Lacassagne during his weeklong autopsy, are now standard practices in forensic examinations.
8a4XV TIL that a tribe on an island in the Pacific worships Prince Philip as a divine being
7AAp TIL a .25 square mile town of 5 people was created in New Jersey just so the country club members could play golf on Sunday.
e0eJk TIL: In 1975 a 50 year old bricklayer died laughing whilst watching an episode of the TV show, The Goodies. His widow wrote to the cast of the show to thank them for making her husband's final moments so pleasant.
0dNyj TIL that scientists had to rename genes because MS Excel would convert those names into dates