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TIL BBW is actually Big /Beautiful/ Woman, made up by a fashion company.

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noKr TIL that in 2007, while excavating for a new building in Central London, archeologists discovered the unmarked isolated remains of a teenage Roman girl. She was later reburied on site with full Roman burial rites, and her tomb is marked by a Latin inscription commemorating the “Unknown Roman Girl.”
mxMAx TIL, actor Tim Allen's father died in a car accident in 1964 when Tim was only 11 years old when that happened. A drunk driver collided into the father's car.
6Erdl TIL: Maine is the U.S. state closest to Africa.
XyNR TIL that a man flew three times on the Space Shuttle without being an astronaut. Charles Walker got turned down by NASA but found a space-related job at McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas paid NASA $40,000 per flight for Walker to operate its experiments on the shuttle as a payload specialist.
Lkrkd TIL about Mobutu Sese Seko, the military dictator of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1965 to 1997. Mobutu was supported by the U.S government as an anti-Communist force in Africa, while his regime is regarded as one of the worst in terms of human rights violations