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TIL that in South Korea, shoe sizes are just your foot length in millimetres

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E1pnX TIL that during the French Revolution the bodies of over 100 French royals were exhumed and tipped into mass graves. Parts of them were also seized; one man took "Dagobert’s jaw, a section of Saint Louis’ skull, the teeth of Henry III, Philippe Auguste’s hair and the leg of Catherine de' Medici".
wxNo TIL The word “honeymoon” originated from the tradition of giving newly weds a month’s supply of mead on their wedding night
9Ym46 TIL John Von Neumann was considered the smartest man alive by his fellow physicists. Enrico Fermi once told his Ph.D student: "You know how much faster I am in thinking than you are? That's how much faster von Neumann is compared to me."
J1Aym TIL Cigarette smoking has a positive relationship with caffeine tolerance and metabolism because it induces the cytochrome P450 1A2 enzyme that breaks down caffeine.
w7dJ TIL A vegan tried to prove “vegans can do anything” by climbing Mt. Everest actually died climbing Mt. Everest.