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TIL Billy Joel never sells front row tickets at his concerts

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4XWeo TIL that a larger brain generally means a longer yawn
NXl4e Today I learned that mug shots in the 1800s used to be taken with hands over your chest for extra identification.
78R5P TIL: King Charles III and the British Royal Family own 6.6 Billion Acres of land equivalent to one-sixth of the surface of the earth. Locations include London, rural Britain, and more than 90% of the land in Canada.
ZByp TIL the Pentagon was constructed with twice the number of bathrooms needed for the number of employees because segregated Virginia at the time required separate facilities for “white” and “colored” persons.
pYAWQ TIL that during WW2, for over a year, the British and the Germans had independently discovered how to jam each others' radar. But they decided not to use it, for fear of giving the tactic away to the other side.