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TIL That Peter Dinklage is only 3 inches shorter than Simone Biles

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XGD8 TIL Interracial Marriage was not fully legalized in the USA until a 1967 Supreme Court Case
K0VG TIL that ESPN boxing analyst and trainer Teddy Atlas once held a .38 caliber handgun to Mike Tyson’s head after Tyson touched Atlas’ 11 year old relative on the butt.
mxGBy TIL there's a genre of music called Breakcore that utilizes traditional elements of hardcore, breakbeat, and drum n bass but at insane tempos and in non-traditional song structures and time signatures usually through manipulating samples. Venetian Snares is an example of one such artist.
XE0bE TIL Astronauts attach pieces of Velcro into their helmets to scratch their noses during space walks.
9wDe7 Til the Warsaw Radio Mast was the world's tallest structure at 646.30 m (2,120 ft) from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991. It was build to broadcast Communist propaganda around the world, including to the remotest areas such as Antarctica.