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TIL In the 1970s, Mattel sold a doll called “Growing Up Skipper.” Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.

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VBVVk TIL: The Lenski Experiment, a 34 year-long experiment with bacteria, has studied over 75,000 generations of E.coli since 1988z
VDgm TIL That the Wall album is technically a loop that goes on forever, because the first and last words of the first and last songs come together to make the sentence “Isn’t this…where we came in?,” thus restarting the entire album.
VMRok TIL Humans have consumed 9.2b tons of plastic. Out of it, 6 billion will never meet a recycling bin, and there’s no infrastructure to deal with it. That’s equivalent to the weight of one billion elephants.
x6Oeg TIL There is an estimated number of 97 walls gates and roads called peace lines in Belfast. 67% of the deaths during the troubles happened within 500 meters of where the peace lines exist
5YrZr TIL Pizza Hut restaurants in China stopped offering one trip salad bars- due to customer's creating elaborately engineered "salad towers" carefully balanced on one plate.