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TIL the Japan Times ran an article in 2010 predicting (seemingly accurately) the rise in popularity of thick thighs

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d8EDd TIL: Black peoples’ skin only has a built in spf of up to 10, so everyone should wear proper suntan lotion.
RRy8 TIL there is a 3rd order enclave of India inside of Bangladesh. This piece of land, which belongs to India, resides inside a piece of Bangladesh which resides inside a piece of India that resides about 10 miles inside of Bangladesh.
Z8yPY TIL that a holocaust denial group offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money, and an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
xZLo TIL that British political sitcom The Thick of It had a ‘swearing consultant’ who would add more imaginative bad language to the scripts
NXQ61 TIL, five parrots at a wildlife park have been removed from public display after they started swearing at visitors.