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TIL your old social media posts can reveal more than you think – even if they're years old. We all have those cringe-worthy Facebook rants or questionable tweets from years ago. But did you know that even seemingly harmless old posts can offer a surprising amount of insight into Personalities

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wonjE TIL about the Atholl Highlanders, which are a British private infantry regiment under the Duke of Athool, chieftain of Clan Murray, in Pertshire, Scotland
9wLaB TIL every LEGO minifigure had the exact same head shape for the first 21 yrs of minifigure production, limiting what characters it could do. It wasn't until 1999 & the Jar Jar Binks minifigure for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace that LEGO introduced sculpted head pieces for its minifigures
KO4wJ TIL of Dennis Tito, the first space tourist. He paid $20 million in 2001 to spend 7 days, 22 hours, and 4 minutes in space.
l79bN TIL there is a "significant relationship" between the length of a male narwhal's tusk and the size of its testes
v1AQK TIL Due to its high degree of microporosity, as little as 1 gram of activated charcoal has a surface area in excess of 3,000 square meters- which is the same as 3 Olympic swimming pools, 7 basketball courts, or 230 car-parking spaces.